The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World
- Kind
- Magazine Article
- Date
- 08/06/2010
- Publisher
- Spiegel Online International
- Place
- Germany
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Generation @ is Not the Cultural Revolution Predicted
In purely statistical terms, it appears that ever-greater proportions of young people's days are focused on technology. According to a recent study carried out by the Stuttgart-based media research group MPFS, 98 percent of 12- to 19-year-olds in Germany now have access to the Internet. And by their own estimates…
Most People Just Want Technology to Work
"Media are used by the masses if they have some relevance to everyday life," says Rolf Schulmeister, the educational researcher. "And they are used for aims that people already had anyway." Young people have now reached this turning point. The Internet is no longer something they are willing to waste time thinking…