iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

by Jean M. Twenge

Of course, this might be because iGen’ers get all of their news online. However, the decline in news consumption among teens didn’t begin with iGen; even before the Internet arrived, teens were less likely to pay attention to the news with each passing year. That suggests that Internet news consumption isn’t the only social trend afoot. In addition, the decline in watching TV news is about twice the size as the decline in watching TV in general. For iGen’ers, online news is just about the only game in town. It can be a good one, if you go to the right places. The problem, as far as I could tell in the interviews and surveys I did with teens, is that few knew about those places.