Understanding those with whom we need to communicate or build relationships is core in PR. So I’ve set my first year Undergraduate students at Bournemouth University two challenges before our first Consumer & Audience Psychology seminar on 8 October.
The first is to profile me in terms of demographics, attitude, interests and behaviour. Their starting point was my name – so if they’ve found this blog, there’s plenty here to analyse.
The second task relates to their generation and particularly the terms Millennials and Digital Natives which have been applied to this age group.
I’m interested in whether the guys feel either term reflects them as well as hearing their views on the use of such segmentation by organisations.
So their reading links are: http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf and http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf
The assignment for this Unit will be undertaken using wikis, which will be interesting as I’ve not done this before. But then, I am a mere Digital Immigrant!
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