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Summary: In PBS’s Digital Nation segment “The Dumbest Generation?” the main topic is because of technological advancements and media multitasking are we as academically capable as a generation as we once were? The segment completed research at MIT, backing up profession claims with actual student interactions and interviews. Media multitasking results in the current generation...

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation published a 2004 research study surrounding media usage in youth ages 8-18 years old that they compare to their past publication in 1999 on the same subject. The first few pages of the report is the introduction, in which raw statistics of media usage within the youth in various decades of the 20th century are highlighted in order to display...

In Ulmer's reading, "Electronic Monuments", an examination of MEmorials is made. Ulmer analyzes the hypothesis of electronic monumentality is that the context for the proposal is the need for compositional practice and the capability of supporting learning with digital technology. The idea of electronic monuments is one that does not need to be created for the purpose of commemorating...

In Don Fallis' article titled "Toward an Epistemology of Wikipedia", he argues that Wikipedia's epistemic consequences are likely to be good for our society. Fallis makes a statement that to make Wikipedia a good and more reliable source, we must clarify the epistemic values that we expect it to follow (Fallis 1662). Fallis argues that people are likely to acquire knowledge through...