THOUGHTS
Confessions of a Gen Y Kid: Electronic Media
Moving screen images and bouncy audio carried us all the way through our youth…and straight into pariah status!
Just like Generation X before us, and Generation Z after us, members of Generation Y have been influenced by moving-picture media — for better or for worse. Some claim it’s been “for the worse”…and, in many scenarios, I can understand their frustration. On the other hand, I can’t ignore the positive impact that this imagery has had on all of us younger generations.
In Parts 1 and 2 of my “Confessions of a Gen Y Kid” series, I’ve documented how education and pop culture, respectively, have shaped Millennial minds. So I’m going to build on these emphases to demonstrate how much more deeply our sources of entertainment have molded us. What we used to consume influenced what we currently consume…and that will continue to influence which audio-visual emblems we cling to, decades from now.
The Early Days of Millennial Culture
As someone who was born toward the front of the Gen Y assembly line, chronologically speaking — I had pretty good awareness of what my generation was into, leisure-wise. Even the stuff that I didn’t care for, myself.