Week 8 - Article 1 Criticism

Article 1: This article may have been relevant when it was written in 2003. However, with the technology changing all the time, the article's claims seem to be outdated. For example, within the text a statistic was given saying how only around '1 in 5 (19%)' of children had used the internet. Now im taking a guess, but i doubt that the figure would be the same 6 years on. With change in acessibility of the internet nowadays, for example the increased access of the internet, whether its wireless or on mobile phones and how education system are making more units based around computer technologies, i could imagine that that the figure would have an increase. The article even states how music plays a significant role in their social interactions, which is fair enough but then it says how they would swap CD's and Video's with eachother. There findings on how depending on access, children and young people generate their own styles of media use is an interesting concept, and if applied more to new media, this article would be quite interesting as it does shed some light on a 'digital divide', but this 'digital divide' is just not as relevant to others.