The Wired Generation Summary

In The Wired Generation, Wade Jacobsen and Renata Forste write about the impact of online communication versus face to face communication and the impact of electronic media on grades. According to the authors, electronic use can distract from academic success, and at the same time facilitates social interaction and the development of social networks (Jacobsen and Forste 279 ) . The authors succeed in supporting the positive effects on social interaction and fails to support the negative effects to academic results.
The article disputes that in many previous studies, students do not bear in mind multitasking and other factors when determining the relationship between the academic results and the use of electronic media. Along with the use