Teens in Media

[jwag57]

Media Life that is. Media Life Magazine has an online section Media Life Web Shorts. It consists of one paragraph summaries of new stories in the media. I was looking through it today and found a few stories that were related to teenagers.

Facebook lets users decide whether they like new ads

Coleman: Teens favor iPods over radio for new tunes

College schooling students in digital copyright laws
I think that this is a great idea and should even start on the high school level. I don't think that teenagers realize what they are doing when they download TV shows and music illegally.

The biggest e-vampires: PlayStations and plasma TVs
Not only about teenagers but they might be the biggest abusers. The story is about Plasma TVs, video game players and desktop computers being very big electricity users, even when they are on standby. You may want to teach your teens to turn them off when not in use.

 

Originally posted at http://connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com/2008/06/teens-in-media.html