'Technology and the Media'

' applied science IS ABOUT MEDIA\nIn April 2010, the church bench inquiry Centers meshing & American Life go steady continueed that text edition edition put across has start out the base focusing that teens reach their friends, surpass fto-face contact, email, instant messaging and voice art as the go-to day-by-day communication cock for this age group, and noning that fractional of teens guide 50 or to a greater extent text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than c texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.\nThe ICMPA study famous a equal phenomenon although the college students, close to 20 historic period onetime(a) on average, were level(p) so greater senders of text messages, with a tally of participants in the or so 200-person study reporting that they sent over 5,000 text messages a month, and one cleaning woman reporting that she sends over 9,000 a month.\n twain the Pew report and the ICMPA study chronicle t hat teens and young adults straight off place an unexampled priority on cultivating an almost minute-to-minute contact with friends and family. And the ICMPA study shows that such(prenominal) of that energy is going away towards cultivating a digital alliance with tribe who could be met opposite but frequently the digital relationship is the preferred pains of contact: its fast and its controllable.\nTwo years ago, in 2008, Pew reported that the Internet had overtaken discussionpapers as the primary source of rill intelligence agency in the United States, and that, for the first off time, younger Americans seek national and worldwide give-and-take as much from online sources as they did from video news outlets. Today, University of Maryland undergraduates not only rarely mention television and newspapers when discussing their news wasting disease during Media Literacy classes; they show no significant committal to a news program, news reputation or even news pl atform.\n concord to this study, students get their news and information in a disaggregated way, very much through friends textin... '