MTV generation

MTV generation

1. The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.
   • 1992 December 22, PC Mag, volume 11, number 22, page 346:

     But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […] , it won't impress the MTV generation.

   • 1996, James Robert Walker; Robert V. Bellamy, Jr., Television and the Remote Control, Guilford Press, page 96:

     Younger viewers are seen as part of the MTV generation: raised on a collage of rapidly shifting images […]

   • 1998, Garry Mitchell, The Trainer's Handbook, AMACOM, page 311:

     The problem was that this young man, like many young people who grew up in the MTV generation, had developed only a very short attention span.

   • 2003, Patricia B. Seybold, Martin Lindstrom, Brandchild, Kogan Page, page 8:

     Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable.

   • 2025 November 2 (last accessed), “Let’s Get Real! Magritte and the Nature of Reality”, in baptistcenter.com‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 May 2006, page 14:

     Incidentally, the emphasis on the necessity of visual communication for the MTV generation is overblown. The MTV generation was climatized to visual media as an accident of history; had they been born in any other era they would have had to learn like anyone else.

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