John, et. al.,
Historically, the print journalism world does not consider college students
as much of a market because they are not settled. traditionally, that has
most often meant settled *down* with family, etc., usually meaning late 20s,
early 30s. although some demographic shifts and the internet change that
somewhat, it's still certainly true -- as you rightly spotlight -- that
college students are not, by and large -- purveyors of regular reading for
information on their own that might not be related to the location of the
nearest keg.
steve snow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Steve Eskow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "The Digital Divide Network discussion
group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [DDN] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge?
> At 6:54 PM -0800 1/21/05, Steve Eskow wrote:
> >John Hibbs's message below seems to challenge the conventional wisdom
which
> >holds that the young are ready for the "digital revolution" while their
> >elders resist it.
>
> It's not that the college students I know well resist "technology".
> Universally, they have cell phones and text message like crazy. They
> get instantly touchdown-by-touchdown updates and have no trouble at
> all finding out, remotely, where the party is tonight. They can take
> digital photographs and wirelessly email same. But give them
> something to read outside of their required reading assignment that
> is unrelated to sports or fashion, and what you see is pretty close
> to armed resistance.
>
> They are cold - no, not cold - FRIGID! - to blogging, underscored by
> antagonism - yes that is the correct word - to writing assignments
> for old school professors who believe some aspect of their grade is
> determined by grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing.
>
> You want them to write something on a *voluntary* basis? Gawd, Hibbs.
> ya gotta be CRAZY!
>
> -=---
>
> Having said all this, I suspect this conversation (Steve) is best
> held on lists devoted to "education"? (Like DEOS?)
> Cheers,
> John
>
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