In light of the media’s role in the ongoing generational shift, I found N. Katherine Hayles’s article “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes” in the 2007 Profession very interesting. According to her essay, so-called “Generation M” (M stands for media, I assume), an age group ranging from 8 to 18 years old, spends average 6.5 hours everyday consuming media that are divided into 3.51 hours’ watching TV and DVD movies, 1.44 hrs’ listening MP3, music CDs, and radio, 1.02 hrs of Web surfing, 0.49 hrs’ playing video games, and 0.43 hrs of reading. I don’t think the statistics stands for the whole young generation, but it can still be something to be concerned about. What Hayles has observed in this research is that
