SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tums, Michael Wesch, Allan Bloom

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Marshall mcluhan"s idea of hot media, cool media and molten ice media. Michael wesch"s video called a vision of students today and the idea that the. Baby boomers are anyone born in 1945-1960. Generation x is anyone born from 1961-1981. Generation y or gen y is anyone born from 1982-2000. Generations after called: echo boom, boomlet, nintendo generation, nexters, digital. The millennials is anyone who turns 18 at the millennium. Provides a common biography of the students entering post secondary institutions that year. These students will always have their iphones and blackberries on them, to which making a phone call will be only one of the functions that they can actually do. They will also be comfortable with computerized technology. Professors will need to help students adjust to researching information in books and journals and not just online. These students were born just when the internet started to become popular and.