What is it the we think is happening around us between my generation and my dads generation to the generations of the teens that i see around here and there and everytime i leave the house it looks like kids are geeting hanged to technology to a point that is really so real that it feels that our life is hanged around a single AAA battery and that is really on my age i can say that its really depanded on a Lithum battery that they almost leave if it wasnt a long standed battery like the ones in the Ipod or Iphone and what is the prespration to a new socity of socialing from meeting people online in alot of millions of sites and blogs and social sites to having millions of friends and looking back to my generation since this is a comparission to my friends that i meet in high school and my college freinds.
okay lets go to a more structer i got this from google.com
Teens this generation spend more time on computers and game consules at a very growing paise that reached 6 hours per day and with soical sites building more and more barriers between teens and there elders like parents and siblings its becoming more hard to get connected and understand what your children and younger brothers are thinking off at the end in our time we had to talk to some1 from the house and in there case why should they since they can talk to someone from twitter and facebook that well listen to them Girls in particular are likely to chat online to their friends at night and 38% take a console to bed instead of a book.
Some parents who have stopped their children from having a TV in their bedroom for fear they will watch it too much have justified internet access on the basis that it will help with homework.
But the latest from market research agency ChildWise finds children and young teens are more likely to socialise than do homework online. Some 30% say they have a blog and 62% have a profile on a social networking site.
The report is based on an annual survey, now into its 15th year, of 1,800 children at 92 schools across the country. "This year has seen a major boost to the intensity and the independence with which children approach online activities,the report says.
Screen time has become so pervasive in the daily lives of five- to 16-year-olds that they are now skilled managers of their free time, juggling technology to fit in on average six hours of TV, playing games and surfing the net.
But reading books is falling out of favour - 84% said they read for pleasure in 2006, 80% in 2007 and 74% this year 2009 and well drop more by 2010.
Children who use the internet spend on average 1.7 hours a day online, but one in six spent more than three hours a day online on top of the 1.5 hours they spent on their games consoles. They still have time for 2.7 hours of television - though the report says they tend to multitask, doing these activities simultaneously.
Where children initially began using the internet to do homework, that has become an afterthought and they are much more likely to spend their time online socialising. One in three said the computer is the single thing they couldn't live without, compared with a declining number - one in five - who name television.
Pupils are using the internet less while at school, frustrated by the low-tech access and the restrictions put in place to stop them from accessing inappropriate material. Younger girls are now catching up with boys in the use of games consoles.
The Untied States Goverment has moved to address what has been dubbed the "toxic childhood" of children living under intense media influence. Just over a year ago the government published a long-term plan that ordered a review of children's media habits by psychologist Tanya Byron.
Byron recommended cinema-style ratings for video games as she warned of a "digital divide" growing up within families as children mastered the internet and video games while their parents and grandparents often had little clue about the material they were looking at.Today's research suggests that could now be the case. Rosemary Duff, ChildWise's research director, said: The internet has moved to a whole new level. They are watching the same amount of TV but there is a change in the way children communicate and get their information. It's so clear that a lot of children are fluent communicators but not in a conventional way. They aren't readers, they are reliant on spellchecks. They are a generation abandoning print and paper, and the whole integration of technology and the way they glide from one to the other is seamless. They will be surfing the net, talking to a friend and downloading a track simultaneously. It's hard for the older generation to understand what's going on with their children because they communicate in a completely different way.
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الثلاثاء، 8 ديسمبر 2009
Generation Y
Also describes the demographic cohort following Generation X. Its members are often referred to as Millennials or Echo Boomers .As there are no precise dates for when the Millennial generation starts and ends, commentators have used birth dates ranging somewhere from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s.This generation generally represents an increase in births from the 1960s and 70s, not because of a significant increase in birthrates, but because the large cohort of baby boomers began to have children. The 20th century trend toward smaller families in the West continued however, so the relative impact of the "baby boom echo" was generally less pronounced than the original boom.
Characteristics of the generation vary by region, depending on social and economic conditions. However, it is generally marked by an increased use and familiarity with communications, media, and digital technologies. In most parts of the world its upbringing was marked by an increasingly neo-liberal or market oriented approach to the politics and economics, The effects of this environment are disputed.
Characteristics of the generation vary by region, depending on social and economic conditions. However, it is generally marked by an increased use and familiarity with communications, media, and digital technologies. In most parts of the world its upbringing was marked by an increasingly neo-liberal or market oriented approach to the politics and economics, The effects of this environment are disputed.
Generation X
Generation X :
commonly abbreviated to Gen X is the generation born after the baby boom ended Erliest birth dates seen used by researchers ranging from 1961 to the latest 1981.
The term Generation X has been used in demography, the social sciences, and marketing, though it is most often used in popular culture.
Origin :
1 - In the UK
the term was first used in a 1964 study of British youth by Jane Deverson. Deverson was asked by Woman's Own magazine to interview teenagers of the time. The study revealed a generation of teenagers who
1 - sleep together before they are married,
2 - were not taught to believe in God as 'much',
3 - dislike the Queen, and don't respect parents,
these controversial findings meant that the piece was deemed unsuitable for the magazine. Deverson, in an attempt to save her research, worked with Hollywood correspondent Charles Hamblett to create a book about the study. Hamblett decided to name it Generation X.
The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel, Generation X Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s. While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase “Generation X,” in a 1989 magazine article, he erroneously attributed the term to Billy Idol. In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976-1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book—a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.
2 - in the US
Individuals considered to be within Generation X were born, and grew up during the later years of, and in the decade following the Vietnam War. They are most often linked to the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.Coming of age after the Vietnam War had ended, their political experiences and cultural perspective were shaped by the end of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin wall. Growing up in an historical span of relative geopolitical peace for the US, this generation saw the inception of the home computer, the rise of videogames, and the Internet as a tool for social and commercial purposes. Other attributes identified with this demographic are Dot-com businesses, early MTV, Desert Storm, 80's Rock, such as Van Halen and Bon Jovi, Grunge and Hip hop culture and punk rock bands such as The Ramones. Manga and other graphic novels have also emerged as a popular form of literature for members of this generation and Generation Y.
The US Census Bureau cites Generation X as statistically holding the highest education levels when looking at age group US Census Bureau, in their 2009 Statistical Abstract. (Also see Education Statistics Canada, 2001 Census.) Moreover, in economics, a study (done by Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Urban Institute) challenged the notion that each generation will be better off than the one that preceded it.The study, 'Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?" focuses on the income of males 30-39 in 2004 (those born April, 1964 – March, 1974) and is based on Census/BLS CPS March supplement data.
The study, which was released on May 25, 2007, emphasized that in real dollars, this generation's men made less (by 12%) than their fathers had at that same age in 1974, thus reversing a historical trend. The study also suggests that per year increases in the portion of father/son family household income generated by fathers/sons have slowed (from an average of 0.9% to 0.3%), barely keeping pace with inflation, though increases in overall father/son family household income are progressively higher each year because more women are entering the workplace, contributing to family household income.
commonly abbreviated to Gen X is the generation born after the baby boom ended Erliest birth dates seen used by researchers ranging from 1961 to the latest 1981.
The term Generation X has been used in demography, the social sciences, and marketing, though it is most often used in popular culture.
Origin :
1 - In the UK
the term was first used in a 1964 study of British youth by Jane Deverson. Deverson was asked by Woman's Own magazine to interview teenagers of the time. The study revealed a generation of teenagers who
1 - sleep together before they are married,
2 - were not taught to believe in God as 'much',
3 - dislike the Queen, and don't respect parents,
these controversial findings meant that the piece was deemed unsuitable for the magazine. Deverson, in an attempt to save her research, worked with Hollywood correspondent Charles Hamblett to create a book about the study. Hamblett decided to name it Generation X.
The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel, Generation X Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s. While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase “Generation X,” in a 1989 magazine article, he erroneously attributed the term to Billy Idol. In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976-1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book—a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.
2 - in the US
Individuals considered to be within Generation X were born, and grew up during the later years of, and in the decade following the Vietnam War. They are most often linked to the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.Coming of age after the Vietnam War had ended, their political experiences and cultural perspective were shaped by the end of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin wall. Growing up in an historical span of relative geopolitical peace for the US, this generation saw the inception of the home computer, the rise of videogames, and the Internet as a tool for social and commercial purposes. Other attributes identified with this demographic are Dot-com businesses, early MTV, Desert Storm, 80's Rock, such as Van Halen and Bon Jovi, Grunge and Hip hop culture and punk rock bands such as The Ramones. Manga and other graphic novels have also emerged as a popular form of literature for members of this generation and Generation Y.
The US Census Bureau cites Generation X as statistically holding the highest education levels when looking at age group US Census Bureau, in their 2009 Statistical Abstract. (Also see Education Statistics Canada, 2001 Census.) Moreover, in economics, a study (done by Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Urban Institute) challenged the notion that each generation will be better off than the one that preceded it.The study, 'Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?" focuses on the income of males 30-39 in 2004 (those born April, 1964 – March, 1974) and is based on Census/BLS CPS March supplement data.
The study, which was released on May 25, 2007, emphasized that in real dollars, this generation's men made less (by 12%) than their fathers had at that same age in 1974, thus reversing a historical trend. The study also suggests that per year increases in the portion of father/son family household income generated by fathers/sons have slowed (from an average of 0.9% to 0.3%), barely keeping pace with inflation, though increases in overall father/son family household income are progressively higher each year because more women are entering the workplace, contributing to family household income.
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