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by amy on Thu Mar 18th, 2004 at 10:55:10 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Most of them are extremely internet savvy and seem to access information almost as a form of entertainment.

Phew, I thought it was just me.

On a related note, I've been wondering, why is it that when people spend hours reading on the Internet, they're considered to be "lost in the Internet" [sigh], as though the material they're reading is irrelevant, or presumed to be content-less because it came across the Internet? Nobody ever refers to people being absorbed into a library or newstand. Dang, maybe the medium actually *is* the message...

One might argue that it's difficult to get the depth of longer print material on the net, because screens are hard to read long things on, and some (but not all) net-based texts are shorter than their print counterparts. These are legitimate points - however I'd argue the net has a breadth advantage. For example, I find I might first read about an event or situation in the New York Times online, and then check out alternative media and news media from other countries to see what they say about it. The net facilitates getting a number of sources fairly easily.

Right now, maybe the net is still too new for people to get over the technology. And they should never get completely over it - after all, it's important to recognize how any medium skews things. But at the moment, the net is still steeped in utopian/dystopian larger-than-life hype, so the meatier questions sometimes get brushed aside. Michael has posed a good question, so I'll respond with another question: are the new net-informed becoming broader-informed than print/tv/radio/whatever folks? Broader but shallower? Broader but narrower? It depends?

Ok, that was four questions. :-/


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