http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/06/30/the-video-generation/ Berkman investigators, fellows, research assistants and interns sound off about all things Digital Natives Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:31:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/06/30/the-video-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-8140 live football Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:09:52 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/06/30/the-video-generation/#comment-8140 I am a great fun of sports, thank you for your hint I am a great fun of sports, thank you for your hint

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/06/30/the-video-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-827 alex juhasz Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:58:40 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/06/30/the-video-generation/#comment-827 While making a video response, posting a comment, or watching a related video are certainly improvements in "interactivity" over popping in a dvd, most viewers (especially children) do not respond with videos, the comments are almost uniformly inane and the related videos send one on a meandering (if dreamlike) track of seemingly random design (although certainly keeping eyeballs glued to ad-holding pages). We can want for better than this for our kids, yes? I rely on voices like yours to theorize the best such technologies might offer, not to celebrate the simple gains they easily afford. While making a video response, posting a comment, or watching a related video are certainly improvements in “interactivity” over popping in a dvd, most viewers (especially children) do not respond with videos, the comments are almost uniformly inane and the related videos send one on a meandering (if dreamlike) track of seemingly random design (although certainly keeping eyeballs glued to ad-holding pages). We can want for better than this for our kids, yes? I rely on voices like yours to theorize the best such technologies might offer, not to celebrate the simple gains they easily afford.

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