26/03/2002, 13:27:50, Olivier writes :
Sociologists have nammed this social phenomena or new teenagers habits :
"screenagers".
Short definition of "Screenagers" :
Born after 1977, media are their toys, information is power, ‘Bill
Gates rules the world’, positive expectations.
Sociologists have forecast that they will be more between 2004-2005
and will revolutionize the mobile market!
There's already some studies about "Screenagers" in north of Europe
(Sweden / Finland).
- (PowerPoint Slides of Learning 2.0 Conference in Sweden) www.nextstep.gov.se/present/Veen.ppt
- The young develop their own mobile communications culture http://www.tekes.fi/eng/news/uutis_tiedot.asp?id=1471
Greetz,
Olivier
martin@anoria.com
Sunday, March 24, 2002, 8:56:57 AM, you wrote:
jp> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&u=/nm/20020323/sc_nm/hea
jp> lth_thumbs_dc_1
jp> Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth
jp> Sat Mar 23, 5:32 PM ET
jp> LONDON (Reuters) - The use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has
jp> caused a physical mutation in young people's hands, according to a British
jp> Sunday newspaper.
jp> New research carried out in nine cities around the world shows that the
jp> thumbs of people under the age of 25 have taken over as the hand's most
jp> dexterous digit, said The Observer.
jp> The change affects those who have grown up with hand-held devices where the
jp> thumbs are used for keying in text messages and emails.
jp> "The relationship between technology and the users of technology is mutual.
jp> We are changing each other," said Dr. Sadie Plant of Warwick University's
jp> Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.
jp> "Discovering that the younger generation has taken to using thumbs in a
jp> completely different way and are instinctively using thumbs where the rest
jp> of us are using our index fingers is particularly interesting."
jp> In her research, Plant noticed that while those less used to mobile phones
jp> used one or several fingers to access the keypad, younger people used both
jp> thumbs ambidextrously, barely looking at the keys as they made rapid
jp> entries.
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