Douglas Rushkoff response to Mark Bauerlein

I'm assuming they can't measure an hour spent doing Facebook and, say, email as two hours, though, right? It's still just one hour of media immersion. So the increase is txting while walking to class, listening to mp3's while playing with friends, talking on the phone while...well, while whatever else a teen might be doing.

I'm assuming Marc Prensky would say "they're not reading newspapers because newspapers are irrelevant to them. Artifacts of the society they have left behind." If a kid is finding out about Iran via Twitter, what is so wrong about that? Especially when most of the mainstream news spent more time writing about the fact that Iranian activists were using Twitter than the politics behind the story? One could argue that these kids, instead of just reading corporate- sponsored news, were actively making it.