The Young People and New Media by Poh Ling

New media ownership is a term to describe new media and information technologies among children and young people by considering ‘new’ media in their respective context of media in comparison with those in the olden days (Living, 2002). In the modern economy and society, we can reach the worldwide information through media including newspapers, television, radio, internet and so forth. For the purpose of having objective statement, we have collected our data analysis from different backgrounds of people; female and male, age between 20-25 years old, gadgets indicators and time indicators.

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Most of the candidates are students and some are fresh graduates; which means that they have the same similarities of having laptop and smartphones. According to the data that we gathered, we found that those two gadgets are really important especially the young generations nowadays. After all, electronic gadgets are getting cheaper and lighter compared to the past. The importance of new media and their role is prevalent through the information distribution in different forms of information, communication and technology (Das, 2014). The data analysis shows that the most frequent gadgets used are smartphones and laptop - this consists of all ethnicities and gender. MP3 player and tablet only appear as preference.  

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Besides, we are also curious about the time consumption they spend in a day with the new media. We listed out 13 categories: education, entertainment, finance, food and drink, games, health and fitness, music, photo and video, productivity, shopping, social networking, sports and travel. In the educational wise, different people spend their time differently. The data analysis illustrates that the most time that they spent is as long as three (3) to four (4) hours. The next category is entertainment. While there are three of them spent their time for three (3) to four (4) hours and seven (7) to eight (8) hours respectively, none of them spent their time until nine (9) to 10 hours for entertainment. In terms of finance, there is as much as nine (9) of them who spent the very little in using new media. In search for foods and beverages through new media, students tend to mostly spend one (1) or couple of hours a day searching and ordering their food from franchise fast food (for example, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and Pizza Hut). Because the youngsters usually spend their time in their studies, they only spend less than three (3) hours in gaming during their leisure time.

As a conclusion, new media has made our life easier by delivering the latest news and information globally. Nevertheless, we should be careful in using the new media in order to avoid from misusing it.

References

Das, M. M. (2014). Role of new media communication technologies 
en route information society. Challenges and Prospects, 5(1), 20.

Livingstone, S. (2002). Young people and new media: Childhood and the changing media environment. London: Sage.