This past Friday I interviewed Jason Silva and Max Lugavere, two 27-year-old producers and co-hosts of Current TV, the Emmy-award-winning cable network started by Al Gore in 2005 that has since become the fastest growing network in TV history. Picked out of hundreds of applicants, Silva and Lugavere have become the faces of the network, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Gen Y'
Evolving the YouTube Generation
July 11th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · EnlightenNext, Gen Y, Pop Culture
Tags:current tv·Gen Y·jason silva·max lugavere·media·still up
Are You a Narcissist?
July 6th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Culture, Gen Y, Postmodernism
I recently interviewed San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge about her new book, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. The book is quite an achievement and deserves all of the attention it’s been getting from Newsweek and other media outlets. Bringing together an overwhelming amount of evidence from recent [...]
Tags:baby boomers·gen x·Gen Y·Jean Twenge·narcissism·psychology·The Narcissism Epidemic
Why We Need to Compare Ourselves to Others
June 19th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 2 Comments · Culture, Gen Y, Pop Culture, Postmodernism
This past weekend, I watched Kobe Bryant win his fourth National Basketball Association title as his team, the Los Angeles Lakers, defeated their opponent, the Orlando Magic, four games to one in a best of seven series. While the victory was definitely a team effort, Bryant, who was voted MVP of the play-offs, stood out [...]
Tags:Basketball·Jean Twenge·Kobe Bryant·Los Angeles Lakers·narcissism·National Basketball Association·NBA·The Narcissism Epidemic
Gen Y Reads Only 9 Minutes a Day
February 26th, 2009 by Tom Huston· 1 Comment · Gen Y
…according to this article from Inter Press Service. But I suspect that doesn’t include reading IMs or txts.
Seduced by TV, the Internet, video games and text messaging, young people are famously reading less and less — 15-to 24-year-olds in the United States spend less than nine minutes a day reading for pleasure, according to [...]
Tags:Culture·Gen Y·Postmodern
WWJGD?
February 26th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Gen Y
If you’ve never seen the superb 60 Minutes segment on Generation Y (who writhe about in the deepest, darkest depths of the postmodern swamp) titled “The ‘Millennials’ Are Coming,” it’s definitely worth checking out. And then you can watch this Gen-Y-made spoof of the 60 Minutes report, which poses the question that I’m sure is [...]
Tags:Comedy·Culture·Gen Y·Postmodern
Everything’s Amazing; Nobody’s Happy
February 24th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Comedy, Culture, Gen Y, Pop Culture, Postmodernism
A friend sent me a link to this incredibly funny, insightful, and implicating video clip of stand-up comedian Louis CK appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien giving some examples of the extraordinary irony of our time: everything’s amazing and yet no one is happy. Check it out!!
Tags:Conan O'Brien·Gen Y·Louis CK
