Digital Natives

Question 1

What is the criteria to determine newsworthiness?

Answer 1

Timeliness, proximity, conflict prominence, human interest, consequence, usefulness, novelty, defiance

Question 3

Who are digital immigrants?

Answer 3

Visitors from a different era e.g. typewriters, pay-phones

Have trouble adjusting to modern digitised world

Question 4

What are digital natives?

Answer 4

People who grew up with the internet and have been shaped by mediated technologies

They have

A. A distinctive style of learning
B Unique reading patterns
C Process information differently

Question 5

Characteristics of digital natives

Answer 5

1. Collaboration—enjoy community and sharing
2. Entertainment-oriented
3. Speed-obsessed—want greater speed
4. Short-attention span
5. Multi-Taskers
6. High self-discloser; often adjust identity online
7. Connectivity–constant

Question 6

What do critics of digital natives say?

Answer 6

1. They are disconnected from their civic and
   cultural heritage
2. Dumbing-down of
   knowledge
3. Peer opinion is valued over adult tutelage
4. Easily distracted—a short attention span that is
   geared to a video game culture

Question 7

Facebook in 2010

Answer 7

Half a billion users
Accounted for 8.9% of internet traffic
Average user had 130 friends
Teens and young adults are the heaviest users of social networking sites

Question 8

What are fears of the new wild west?

Answer 8

1. Teens reveal private info in wide open public forum, they have tendency to be very high self-disclosers online
2. Sharing of info with others beyond your family can be harmful

Question 9

What are some empowerment issues relating to digital natives?

Answer 9

1. Political campaigns raise money via social media—2008 Obama campaign pioneered the
   approach
2. “Bonding” and “Bridging” capabilities
3. Healthy use of Internet for neighborhood watchdog
   activities

4.Cyber-activism?

5. Marginalized people find a voice and friends with
   similar interests
6. Whether online political
   activities are good for long-term goals or simply
   short-term activities
7. Dictator’s dilemma—stop social media
   completely increases agitation; allow it and you
   provide insurgents with critical information

Question 10

Problems with online activities

Answer 10

1. Online bullying
2. Sexual stalkers/predators
3. Addiction
4. Narcissism
5. FOMO

Question 11

What is the supply and demand equation for millennials

Answer 11

In a world where info is abundant, attention is scarce

Question 12

Patterns in 2024

Answer 12

1. Among millennials, there is now increased levels of loneliness, dissatisfaction and higher levels of unhappiness
2. Around the time we reached market saturation with smartphones, teen unhappiness began to spike
3. Three stage syndrome for smartphone usage

A. Engagement
B. Escalation
C. Addiction

Question 13

How many users does Facebook have?

Answer 13

2 billion +

Half of the users log on each day

Question 14

What happened during the Facebook crisis?

Answer 14

March 2018: Cam Analytics revealed Facebook was allowing devs to access info on its pages

Cam analytics sold info to many parties e.g. Trumps campaign used it to influence 2016 election

Question 15

What are Facebook’s privacy standards?

Answer 15

Always been concerned with growth and new products

IGNORED privacy concerns

Question 16

Who are 3 critics of digital technology

Answer 16

1. Sherry Turtle:concerned about tyranny of email, worried about erosion of traditional family values

2.Todd Gitlin:
concerned about rising levels of stress, digital natives feel overwhelmed by changes in society

3. Jean Twenge, SDSU
   Why today’s super connected students are less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy, completely unprepared for adulthood

Question 17

4 key Digital Natives questions

Answer 17

1. Is there an increase in anxiety and depression among current day millennial students, does it relate to tech?
2. Is the three-stage syndrome of phone usage accurate?
3. Is Facebook still heavily used by today’s teens?
4. Ways for parents to control pre-teen and teen’s social media usage?

Question 18

Overarching observations of digitization:

Answer 18

1. Digitisation of American Life is real
2. Like the industrial revolution of an earlier era, the digital revolution will have “unsettling consequences”
3. There will be pluses and minuses. Digital literacy = +, digital addiction = -
4. Our concern will be with media industries or what will be defined as a media industry

Question 19

What are the 3 stages of web development?

Answer 19

Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0

Question 20

Features of Web 1.0

Answer 20

Early 1990s-early 2000s

Timothy Berners Lee invited World Wide Web in 1980s

Features:
- 1993 release of HTML made it a standard
- static pages
- one-way interaction
- read-only
- basic hyperlinks and navigation
Tim Burners Lee also launched URL and HTP- hurt emergence of Gopher (1991 browser that wanted to use a licensing system)

Question 21

Features of Web 2.0?

Answer 21

Early 2000s-present

Features:
- Can access music, video, social networking e.g. facebook
- social networks offer chat function
- dynamic, interactive
- privacy questions arise
- blogs
- wikis
- Google, Youtube and Facebook become part of everyday life for increasing no of ppl

Question 22

Features of Web 3.0?

Answer 22

Still emerging, developing

Features:
- Greater bandwidth
- Knowledge of interests based on web activity- pre-sifted data bases
- Cloud technology (low-cost computers and expansive storage space key to era)
- Increased mobile connectivitiy on smartphones
- AI
Ownership and control (.e.g NFTs and DeFi)
- Semantic web- understand and interpret data based on machine learning + AI

Question 23

What are 4 new realities?

Answer 23

1. Disruption
2. Displacement
3. New dawn vs A shadow darkens
4. Digital economy- pace of life accelerates

Question 24

Who was Henry Adams

Answer 24

Won Pulitzer Prize in 1919, wrote The Education of Henry Adams, about the disruptions caused by industrialisation