Meaning of MTV generation | Babel Free

Definitions

The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.

Examples

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

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

“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.”

“Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable.”

“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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