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2008

New breed of 'net newsers' shape US media habits, says Pew report | Media | guardian.co.uk

Jemima Kiss writes about the recent Pew report that describes how "well-educated, technically-savvy young web users are shaping the media habits of the US, with one in 20 Americans saying they do not watch TV on a typical day and a sharp decline in newspaper readership, according to new research."

Interesting findings on education levels and TV-watching *and* interest (lack thereof) in science and technology, too.

www.guardian.co.uk/...digitalmedia.usa

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A new generation of well-educated, technically-savvy young web users are shaping the media habits of the US, with one in 20 Americans saying they do not watch TV on a typical day and a sharp decline in newspaper readership, according to new research.
"net newsers" - web users under 35 who read more political blogs than watch national news coverage, rely heavily on web-based news during the day and have a strong interest in technology and technology news.
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- Net newsers are typically affluent and 80% are graduates, making them a highly desirable demographic for advertisers.
- They do favour some traditional media brands, including the New Yorker, The Atlantic and the BBC, the Pew survey of 3,600 adults found. But only 47% watch TV news on an average day.
- The research paints a picture of steady decline in the US newspaper industry, with the percentage of Americans who regularly read print titles falling from 58% in 1993 to 34% in 2008.
  According to the long-running survey, respondents saying they listened to radio news fell from 47% to 35% over the same period. As for network TV, the national news dropped from 60% to 29% and local news from 77% to 52%.
- However, TV is still the most popular medium for the US, with 46% of the public classified as "traditionalists" who watch throughout the day, but are likely to be older and less well educated than net newsers.
- More than 40% of this traditionalist group are unemployed, and were found to prefer visual news stories to audio and have little interest in science or technology news.
  A further 14% are described as "disengaged", a poorly-educated group with little interest in current affairs.
- The research also found that the proportion of young people in the US getting no daily news has increased from 25% in 1998 to 34%, with only 10% of people using social networking sites for their news.

Aug

2008

How Buildings Learn | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration

PSFK's Piers Fawkes writes an entry that provides the links (now available on Google Video) to the BBC series, "How Buildings Learn," by Stewart Brand. In addition to the six parts (each ~30 min. long), Fawkes includes some choice quotes.

For those who know and appreciated Stewart Brand's book, this series is a great addition.

www.psfk.com/...how-buildings-learn.html

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Only 1 in 10 buildings are revisited by the architects after they’re in use.
Buildings change and change and change because all the people who use them have their own ideas - and that’s good… but we need a better understanding of the organic change that happens to buildings.
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- The central problem is that architects don’t want change - but change is inevitable. People who use them change how they want to use them - but we have to understand that.
- this lack of confidence that has been fostered in the population is a manipulation that has been caused partly by the media, largely by the [architectural] profession - and this endangers the fabric of society because if people lose confidence in themselves to that degree then the adaptation of the environment to common sense and everyday use disappears.

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