New media technology and youth: Trends in the evolution of new media.

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An information environment is emerging from the simultaneous, rapid, and interconnected evolution of transmission systems, interfaces, and content quantity, quality, and structure. It will be easy to underestimate the collective impact of the sum of these changes on how young people communicate and absorb information. Ultimately, it will be more important to understand how these technologies will facilitate, amplify, or alter the cognitive processes and/or social behavior of the Internet generation.

The article analyzes the impact of the following trends on media use and cognition among youthful users:

• Information expansion and overload: Accessible networked information will continue to grow at a rapid pace for at least the next 10–20 years.

• Rapid increase in interface diffusion: The number of access points into the Internet is expanding in number, variety, and mobility.

• Evolution toward more embodied computing: Interfaces are evolving to use more of the sensorimotor system to transfer information to and from the user.

• The evolution of more intelligent sensors to interpret use behavior and intentions.

• Evolution toward anthropomorphic agent techniques: Computers are evolving to use more social and interpersonal communication techniques to interact with the user.

There are couples of angel that should be discuss here:

• Trends in technological development

• Trends in the evolution of transmission systems

• The number of access points into cyberspace is expanding in number, density, and mobility

• Information flow is speeding up and expanding on an increasingly diverse range of bit transportation systems

• Trends in the evolution of interface technologies

• Trends in the evolution of social virtual environments

This is the result of the impact:

• Information expansion and overload: Accessible networked information will continue to grow at a nonlinear pace for at least the next 10–20 years.

• Nonlinear increase in interface diffusion: The number of access points into the Internet is increasing nonlinearly in number, variety, and mobility.

• Evolution toward more embodied computing: Interfaces are evolving to use increasingly more of the sensorimotor system to transfer information to and from the user.

• The evolution of more intelligent sensor technologies: Computers are using more sensors to interpret user behavior and intentions.

• Evolution toward anthropomorphic agent techniques: Computers are evolving to use more social and interpersonal communication techniques to interact with the user.

In brief, it will be easy to underestimate the collective impact the sum of these changes has on how young people communicate and absorb information. Since 1990, many popular commentators have consistently underestimated the impact of the Internet. It is important to begin thinking about how these technologies will facilitate, amplify, or alter the cognitive processes and/or the social behavior of the Internet generation.

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Mohd Firdaus Bin Mohd Isa

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