Digital Natives Flashcards
What is the criteria to determine newsworthiness?
Timeliness, proximity, conflict prominence, human interest, consequence, usefulness, novelty, defiance
Who are digital immigrants?
Visitors from a different era e.g. typewriters, pay-phones
Have trouble adjusting to modern digitised world
What are digital natives?
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
Characteristics of digital natives
- Collaboration—enjoy community and sharing
- Entertainment-oriented
- Speed-obsessed—want greater speed
- Short-attention span
- Multi-Taskers
- High self-discloser; often adjust identity online
- Connectivity–constant
What do critics of digital natives say?
- They are disconnected from their civic and
cultural heritage - Dumbing-down of
knowledge - Peer opinion is valued over adult tutelage
- Easily distracted—a short attention span that is
geared to a video game culture
Facebook in 2010
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
What are fears of the new wild west?
- Teens reveal private info in wide open public forum, they have tendency to be very high self-disclosers online
- Sharing of info with others beyond your family can be harmful
What are some empowerment issues relating to digital natives?
- Political campaigns raise money via social media—2008 Obama campaign pioneered the
approach - “Bonding” and “Bridging” capabilities
- Healthy use of Internet for neighborhood watchdog
activities
4.Cyber-activism?
- Marginalized people find a voice and friends with
similar interests - Whether online political
activities are good for long-term goals or simply
short-term activities - Dictator’s dilemma—stop social media
completely increases agitation; allow it and you
provide insurgents with critical information
Problems with online activities
- Online bullying
- Sexual stalkers/predators
- Addiction
- Narcissism
- FOMO
What is the supply and demand equation for millennials
In a world where info is abundant, attention is scarce
Patterns in 2024
- Among millennials, there is now increased levels of loneliness, dissatisfaction and higher levels of unhappiness
- Around the time we reached market saturation with smartphones, teen unhappiness began to spike
- Three stage syndrome for smartphone usage
A. Engagement
B. Escalation
C. Addiction
How many users does Facebook have?
2 billion +
Half of the users log on each day
What happened during the Facebook crisis?
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
What are Facebook’s privacy standards?
Always been concerned with growth and new products
IGNORED privacy concerns
Who are 3 critics of digital technology
- 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
- Jean Twenge, SDSU
Why today’s super connected students are less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy, completely unprepared for adulthood
4 key Digital Natives questions
- Is there an increase in anxiety and depression among current day millennial students, does it relate to tech?
- Is the three-stage syndrome of phone usage accurate?
- Is Facebook still heavily used by today’s teens?
- Ways for parents to control pre-teen and teen’s social media usage?
Overarching observations of digitization:
- Digitisation of American Life is real
- Like the industrial revolution of an earlier era, the digital revolution will have “unsettling consequences”
- There will be pluses and minuses. Digital literacy = +, digital addiction = -
- Our concern will be with media industries or what will be defined as a media industry
What are the 3 stages of web development?
Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
Features of Web 1.0
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)
Features of Web 2.0?
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
Features of Web 3.0?
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
What are 4 new realities?
- Disruption
- Displacement
- New dawn vs A shadow darkens
- Digital economy- pace of life accelerates
Who was Henry Adams
Won Pulitzer Prize in 1919, wrote The Education of Henry Adams, about the disruptions caused by industrialisation
