Everyone has seen a video in the last year of a presidential speech or debate in the last year on YouTube or has read an article/blog posts covering the subject. I think Tapscott got it completely right in chapter 9 for most Net Geners. Take for example all of the political talk amoung teens in the last year. They are still arguing over what Obama is doing right and wrong and why the other candidate would have been better. During the election and the primaries, we all laughed when we saw Tina Fey impersonate Sarah Palin. Net Geners may not know everything about the candidates, but they all have seen something in the last year about politics. It's nearly impossible for anyone to ignore the attack ads to mock each of the candidates. So even if we are not directly involoved in the election, we are capable of knowing where to get information. Most of us knew last year who was running and their stances from political parodies, T.V, the internet, blogs and other media. Just goes to show that we really may be one of the most active generations in politics ever.
This is probably one of my favorite SNL videos ever.
It covers the VP Debate last year in Missouri.
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