The celebrity gossip my parents grew up with talked about the love lives of their teen idols. The celebrity gossip Gen Y is hearing about involves sex tapes, paparazzi pictures and drug binges. What effect is this going to have?
Antonella Barba from American Idol, Disney’s Vanessa Hudgens and “Hannah Montana” Miley Cyrus. Celebrities designed to [...]
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by feastoffools
It’s no secret that Generation Y doesn’t blink when it comes to downloading music. The story of the day is not that teenagers and twentysomethings are loading their iPods with unpurchased music.
I consider myself a veteran digital native; I remember the internet as it was through a 14.4 modem. But I was astonished at [...]
Slowly and surely, every social situation is developing a digital doppleganger.
We can all recall the teenage awkwardness of being seen at the mall with your mom. It’s always a strange feeling when you get a Facebook friend request from someone from another generation. Many Generation Y users see social networks as a sandbox for [...]
Growing up I always learned it was cool to be different - just not too different.
When it came to media, and especially television, it just wasn’t cool to have an accent. Most sitcoms depicted the “foreigner” as slightly bizarre (for anyone that remembers Latka from “Taxi”) or innocently naive (Fez from “That 70s Show” is [...]
