{"id":95,"date":"2005-03-10T20:52:46","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T20:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2005-03-10T20:52:46","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T20:52:46","slug":"generation_m_and_the_mediated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/10\/generation_m_and_the_mediated\/","title":{"rendered":"generation M and the mediated mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\/entmedia\/loader.cfm?url=\/commonspot\/security\/getfile.cfm&#038;PageID=51809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"generationM.jpg\" img style=\"margin:5px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/generationM.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"189\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a> A major <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\/entmedia\/7251.cfm\">study<\/a>  of media consumption habits among American youth (ages 8-18) was released yesterday by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\">Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>. A &#8220;representative sample&#8221; of over 2,000 3rd through 12th graders were surveyed, including 700 who volunteered to maintain seven-day &#8220;media diaries,&#8221; charting media consumption in half hour chunks, noting location, company they had, and any simultaneous activities. Findings were announced at a high-profile release in Washington attended by Hillary Clinton and other luminaries.<br \/>\nThe study finds that kids are often multitasking &#8211; absorbing several media simultaneously, often at consoles set up in their bedrooms. Average daily exposure is a full third of the day (8.33 hours), which, when combined with approximately a third of the day at school and a third of the day asleep (although most kids are probably not sleeping that much), amounts to nearly every waking, extra-curricular hour spent tuned in, logged on, glued to, etc&#8230;<br \/>\nThe evidence of multitasking paints a picture of a generation skilled at combining passive and interactive media &#8211; the TV is on, but you&#8217;re also instant messaging with friends, and doing a bit of quick research on Google for that homework assignment.  Constant skimming and constant scattering. Are these fractured minds in the making?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major study of media consumption habits among American youth (ages 8-18) was released yesterday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. A &#8220;representative sample&#8221; of over 2,000 3rd through 12th graders were surveyed, including 700 who volunteered to maintain seven-day &#8220;media diaries,&#8221; charting media consumption in half hour chunks, noting location, company they had, and any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}