MTV generation

English Noun ? The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century. en 22 December 1992 PC Mag 11 22 346 But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM may wow computerphiles , it won't impress the MTV generation. en 1996 James Robert Walker; Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. Television and the Remote Control Guilford Press 96 Younger viewers are seen as part of the MTV generation: raised on a collage of rapidly shifting images en 1998 Garry Mitchell The Trainer's Handbook AMACOM 311 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. en 2003 Patricia B. Seybold; Martin Lindstrom Brandchild Kogan Page 8 Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable. en Let’s Get Real! Magritte and the Nature of Reality https://web.archive.org/web/20060501181840/http://baptistcenter.com/Papers,%20etc/Lenaz/Lemke%20-%20Response%20to%20Drumm.pdf 2025-11-02 14 baptistcenter.com 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. See also genx Further reading MTV Generation en Collectives Generations Sociology