The Internet Generation is blurred across all age groups.
We all see that the current generation of kids is growing on the Internet. At the age of six, they open accounts in social networks, actively use flicker, twitter, YouTube, LJ and feel like a fish in water, spending the day in virtual space. The last generation (which is now approximately 28) has grown on computer video games, the previous one - on television. It seems that for more than a decade, technology has been determining how humanity will look. The question is, what exactly is the younger generation of Google that stands out from the previous ones, how alien is it? This issue was devoted to a detailed study of teenagers, the results of which have just been published by the British Library ( via globeandmail.com ).
The findings of sociologists were somewhat unexpected. It turns out that the children born after 1993 do not differ in any way from previous generations. Moreover, the attitudes of the “generation of Google” attributed to them are observed across the entire demographic spectrum . In other words, the internetization of humanity is not an age-related phenomenon, but a common cultural phenomenon that encompasses everyone without exception, regardless of age.
For several years, library staff studied the logs of library computers in search of evidence that young people are better able to use Google and find information. Nothing like this. It turns out that teenagers living on the Internet hung with gadgets and know how to work with information are no better than representatives of previous generations. Perhaps even worse. Experts even talk about “dulling” people, because the practice of quickly viewing search results is becoming more common, paging the pages with results without thoughtful insight into the materials (however, one can argue here, because a quick analysis of a huge amount of information is still useful skill).
The results of the research refute the common myth that the new media environment itself develops some abilities in people. The availability of blogs has not increased the number of literary masterpieces. The emergence of Wikipedia has not made every user a scientific author-expert, and the spread of YouTube has not contributed to the emergence of talented directors. Also, the generation of the Internet, which grew up with a search engine - these are the same children as before.
The findings of sociologists were somewhat unexpected. It turns out that the children born after 1993 do not differ in any way from previous generations. Moreover, the attitudes of the “generation of Google” attributed to them are observed across the entire demographic spectrum . In other words, the internetization of humanity is not an age-related phenomenon, but a common cultural phenomenon that encompasses everyone without exception, regardless of age.
For several years, library staff studied the logs of library computers in search of evidence that young people are better able to use Google and find information. Nothing like this. It turns out that teenagers living on the Internet hung with gadgets and know how to work with information are no better than representatives of previous generations. Perhaps even worse. Experts even talk about “dulling” people, because the practice of quickly viewing search results is becoming more common, paging the pages with results without thoughtful insight into the materials (however, one can argue here, because a quick analysis of a huge amount of information is still useful skill).
The results of the research refute the common myth that the new media environment itself develops some abilities in people. The availability of blogs has not increased the number of literary masterpieces. The emergence of Wikipedia has not made every user a scientific author-expert, and the spread of YouTube has not contributed to the emergence of talented directors. Also, the generation of the Internet, which grew up with a search engine - these are the same children as before.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/19451/
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