[Air-l] New Generation Multi-Tasking

[David Smahel]

Re: [Air-l] New Generation Multi-Tasking


I would like to present a little bit provocative question: does the
multitasking really exists? Also computers do NOT really do 2 things
parallel, they just do this 2 things very fast and we percieve it as
multitasking. But what is really multitasking in our life? Do we
multitask if we change tasks every 1 minute, every hour or every day?
Can we call it multitasking when we go only for lunch? (Probably not
because we are not used to call it multitasking.) I never know what can
I call multitasking and what I can't, do you have any criteria for this?


Btw I presented a poster about adolescents' multiple communication at
the EARA conference in Antalya, you can find it on my web:
http://www.terapie.cz/materials/smahel-antalya-2006.pdf It was just an
explorative research. I wanted first of all to show the connection
between the flow phenomenon and the communication multitasking and to
say that it is very common among adolescents.

Do you know any good papers about multitasking? I know so few of them
and I thing that the research is on the beginning here...

Regards,

David 

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David Smahel, M.Sc. et Ph.D.
 
Institute of Children, Youth and Family Research
School of Social Studies 
Masaryk University Brno
www.fss.muni.cz 
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e-mail: smahel at fss.muni.cz
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