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From: Susan Moeller [mailto:icmpa@jmail.umd.edu] 
Sent: 07 April 2011 13:14
To: icmpa@umd.edu
Subject: Check out ICMPA's global study on how college students on 5 continents use media & access news (+ HuffPost column)

 

Everyone,

Please take a look at the latest ICMPA study:  The world Unplugged.  

 

Conducted with the assistance of a dozen university partners of the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change  the study asked 1000 students in 10 countries on five continents to gave up all media for 24 hours.  After their daylong abstinence, the students recorded their experiences.  In total, students wrote almost half a million words--about the same number of words as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

The world Unplugged study concluded that most college students, whether in developed or developing countries, are strikingly similar in how they use media.  Student after student spoke about their generation's utter dependency on media - especially the mobile phone. And they also talked about how they think about news.  Said one student, from Slovakia:  

“We are used to having information about everything on the planet and this information we have to have in an unbelievable time.  Our generation doesn’t need certified and acknowledged information. More important is quantity, not quality of news.”

Please also look at a column I wrote on the study at the Huffington Post:  Worldwide, Students Suffer From Internet 'Addiction' and another at the World Bank:  What Kind of News Comes in 140 Characters or Facebook Status Updates?

We are beginning to get some significant attention to the project – here's an early story from Yahoo Canada in which a couple of Maryland students are quoted.

 

Thank you!

 

Susan

 

 

 

Susan Moeller, PhD

Director, International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA)

Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism

   & School of Public Policy

University of Maryland

 

 

 


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