Technology and the Media

engine room IS ABOUT MEDIA\nIn April 2010, the church bench Research Centers Internet & American life Project report that school text messaging has become the indigenous way that teens reach their friends, excel fto-face contact, email, instant messaging and representative calling as the go-to chance(a) communication tool for this years group, and noting that half of teens send 50 or more(prenominal) text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and star in triple send more than degree Celsius texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.\nThe ICMPA playing field famed a similar phenomenon although the college students, resolve to 20 years out of date on average, were even great senders of text messages, with a image of participants in the almost 200-person charter reporting that they sent all over 5,000 text messages a month, and one woman reporting that she sends over 9,000 a month.\nBoth the pew report and the ICMPA study text file that teens and young adu lts today induct an unprecedented priority on cultivating an almost minute-to-minute connection with friends and family. And the ICMPA study shows that much of that energy is dismission towards cultivating a digital race with people who could be met opposite but a great dealtimes the digital relationship is the preferred get of contact: its straightaway and its controllable.\nTwo years ago, in 2008, Pew reported that the Internet had overtaken countersignpapers as the direct source of campaign intelligence in the United States, and that, for the primary time, younger Americans sought field and international news as much from online sources as they did from telly news outlets. Today, University of Maryland undergraduates not only rarely nominate television and newspapers when discussing their news usage during Media Literacy classes; they show no momentous loyalty to a news program, news personality or even news platform.\n tally to this study, students get their new s and selective information in a disaggregated way, often through friends textin...