Saturday, April 9, 2011

"Media Multitasking"

Vogt, M. (2005). Kids and media: More multitasking. Reading Today, 22(5), 7. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

In this article it examines media use within in children and teens, and their capability to multitask media. Children and teens in today's world are becoming extremely proficent at mulitasking media, they're able to fit eight and a half hours of exposure in six in a half hours real-time in one day. While technology continues to develop children and teens are able to fit in the new technology without cutting back time on old technology. A study done by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation "Generation M," exmained media in the lives of eight to eight-teen year olds, this study concluded that exposure to media content in young people has increased by more than an hour in the past five years because of media multitasking the hours devoted to it remains steadly rising.


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