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Age of Indifference
The Age of Indifference was a 1990 study conducted by the Times Mirror Company's Center for People and the Press.[1]
The Age of Indifference study surveyed what topics in the news captured the most interest of the general audience. The full title of the study was "The Age of Indifference: A Study of Young Americans and How They View the News." The Times Mirror Company's Center for People and the Press is now called The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Findings on Voting Participation
[edit]From 1972 to 1988
18 to 24 year-olds: voting participation dropped from 50% (1972) to 36% (1988)
25 to 44 year-olds: voting participation dropped from 63% to 54%
45 to 64 year-olds: voting participation held steady across the years, at around 68%
65 and older: voting participation saw a modest increase from 64% to 69%
Findings on the Most Memorable News Events of the 1980s
[edit]People under 30 years of age
Most Memorable: The Challenger Disaster (1986)
Second Place: The San Francisco Earthquake
Third Place: The Texas Girl that was rescued from a well
Only 42% of this group paid attention to the historic upheavals in eastern Europe, including the landmark fall of the Berlin Wall
Only 11% followed President Bush's summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev
Conclusions Drawn
[edit]The concluding statement of the study noted, "The ultimate irony ... is that the Information Age has spawned such an uninformed and uninvolved population"
References
[edit]- ^ William Greider (1992) Who Will Tell The People. Simon & Schuster. New York NY. p. 315. ISBN 0-671-68891-X.
External links
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