MTV generation

noun

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

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

    Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable.

    2003, Patricia B. Seybold, Martin Lindstrom, Brandchild, Kogan Page, page 8
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    But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […], it won't impress the MTV generation.

    1992 December 22, PC Mag, volume 11, number 22, page 346

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

    1996, James Robert Walker; Robert V. Bellamy, Jr., Television and the Remote Control, Guilford Press, page 96

    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.

    1998, Garry Mitchell, The Trainer's Handbook, AMACOM, page 311

    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.

    2025 November 2 (last accessed), “Let’s Get Real! Magritte and the Nature of Reality”, in baptistcenter.com, archived from the original on 01 May 2006, page 14

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