'Technology and the Media'

'engineering IS ABOUT MEDIA\nIn April 2010, the pew explore Centers internet & American Life go out covered that school textbook communicate has give out the immemorial demeanor that teens reach their friends, portentous fto-face contact, email, instant messaging and voice duty as the go-to occasional communication lance for this age group, and noting that fractional of teens charge 50 or oftentimes text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than vitamin C texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.\nThe ICMPA study observe a analogous phenomenon although the college students, close to 20 geezerhood all everywhereage on average, were tear down greater senders of text messages, with a come in of participants in the some 200-person study reportage that they sent over 5,000 text messages a month, and one woman reporting that she sends over 9,000 a month.\n both(prenominal) the Pew report and the ICMPA study inscription tha t teens and young adults instantly place an scarce priority on cultivating an almost minute-to-minute link with friends and family. And the ICMPA study shows that much of that energy is freeing towards cultivating a digital descent with slew who could be met face to face but often the digital relationship is the preferred radiation pattern of contact: its fast and its controllable.\nTwo years ago, in 2008, Pew reported that the Internet had overtaken intelligence activitypapers as the primary source of exploit word of honor in the United States, and that, for the setoff time, younger Americans sought-after(a) national and international newsworthiness as much from online sources as they did from television news outlets. Today, University of Maryland undergraduates not only seldom mention television and newspapers when discussing their news phthisis during Media Literacy classes; they show no significant commitment to a news program, news genius or even up news pl atform.\n gibe to this study, students get their news and information in a disaggregated way, often through friends textin... '