Week 8 - Website 2

This article highlights the differences between the younger generation and their senior's ability to communicate via digital media.

This article uses case studies and relevant examples of a digital native and a digital immigrant with 1st hand quotes. As a digital native I can completely agree with the digital native and would say it is very similar to my attitude.

It doesn't just compare a digital native and a digital immigrant, but society in general - now compared with habits of youth many years ago.

This article suggests that with all the information available to us via digital media, digital natives are much more prepared and equipped for multi tasking, if this however means the information will not be retained for as long as if they had just concentrated on one message at a time via one medium. I believe this to be true, I know I can text, be watching tv, be on msn, downloading music/tv programmes, etc all pretty much at the same time and be concentrating fairly evenly on all of them. But although I'm aware of what's on the television/internet screen at the time, later on I wouldn't be able to recall it in as much detail as had I been just watching tv, or just surfing the net.

The article is from a credible source and features lots of well known theories and quotes from academics.