“…These include studies in the United States (Hargittai, 2010;Salaway, et al, 2008;Smith, et al, 2009;Borreson Caruso. 2010) andCanada (Salajan, et al, 2010;Bullen, et al, 2009) , Australia (Judd and Kennedy forthcoming;Kennedy, et al, 2006Kennedy, et al, , 2007Kennedy, et al, , 2008Kennedy, et al, , 2010Oliver and Goerke, 2007;Waycott, et al, 2009), United Kingdom (Margaryan, et al, 2011;Jones and Healing 2010a;Jones and Hosein 2010;Jones and Cross, 2009;Selwyn 2008), other European countries (Schulmeister, 2010;Ryberg, et al, 2010;Pedró, 2009), South Africa (Thinyane, 2010;Brown and Czerniewicz, 2010;Czerniewicz, et al, 2009), Chile (Sánchez, et al, 2010) and Hongkong (McNaught, et al, 2009). This empirical evidence from around the world, in contrasting economic conditions, shows that today's young students repeatedly prove to be a mixture of groups with various interests, motives, and behaviors, and never a single generational cohort with common characteristics.…”