News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 3 months ago
While internet age hipsters may be simultaneously listening to iPods, watching online videos, instant messaging, checking email and firing off updates to Facebook, most likely they are not doing any of it well. "They're suckers for irrelevancy," said...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 3 months ago
In their study report, the researchers have revealed that they were looking for the secret to good media multi-taskers, but instead found broad-based incompetence. "We knew that multitasking was difficult from a cognitive perspective. We thought, '...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
People who consume lots of different media at the same time do worse when asked to switch tasks, leading researchers to worry about the long-term effect of media multitasking on work performance. Researchers at Stanford University said "chronic media...
News Source: Toronto Star
| 3 months ago
Joseph Hall Health Reporter People who zip between iPods, emails, texting, Twitter and cellphone conversations are slower than their less electrified counterparts in one important area – their thinking, researchers say. In particular, multi-taskers...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 3 months ago
You may think e-mailing, texting, talking on the phone and listening to music all at once is making you more efficient, but new research suggests the opposite is true. Processing multiple streams of information from different sources of media is a...
News Source: The Scotsman
| 3 months ago
YouTube clip, texting a friend at the same time as watching television or posting a Twitter update while streaming a favourite tune. But far from being a convenient way of staying touch with the world around us, scientists have warned that juggling...