![]() ![]() Students’ ‘addiction’ to media may not be clinically diagnosed, but the cravings sure seem real – as does the anxiety and the depression. See the TOP 15 HIGHLIGHTS of the study below:ġ. ![]() ‘Addiction’ grid: Click the grid to open up a full pdf poster of what students around the world had to say about how they felt during their 24 hours without media. Without media “I feel that not even the sun can warm me.” - student from Mexico To take media away, even for 24 hours, said the students, is well-nigh impossible: “For people in the modern society,” said a student at Chongqing University in China, “communication is as important as breath.” Without media “I felt as though everything I knew was taken away from me and that I was being tortured.” - student from Slovakia In aggregate, the students from the dozen universities wrote close to half a million words – or about the same number of words as Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.Ĭollege students around the world are strikingly similar in how they use media – and how ‘addicted’ they are to it. ![]() After their 24 hours without media, the students from the United States, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia were then asked to report their successes and admit to any failures. Close to 1,000 students in ten countries were asked to abstain from using all media for a full day. The World Unplugged, a global study of university students’ media habits was led by the International Center for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) in partnership with the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change. The larger the word in the graphic the more frequently it appeared in the student narratives. The black and green word cloud graphic was generated by from the half a million words written by students in response to The World Unplugged experiment. EXCERPT FROM ICMPA RESEARCH PROJECT - SEE FULL WEBSITE OF STUDY HERE ![]()
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