Flash: digitally deprived college students go daffy. The youngsters are social media addicts and feel disconnected when not online.
200 University of Maryland undergrads spent an entire “Day Without Media.” No Blackberry, laptop, television, iPod, texting, Twitter, phone calls, IM-ing, email or Facebook. OMG!
Participants were students in Professor Susan D. Moeller’s JOUR 175 “Media Literacy” course at the U of Maryland J-school. After 24 hours of “cold turkey,” they each wrote around 550 words about their mental states and experiences. Could students TXT this in? BTHOM (beats the hell outa me).
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