A internet é a antítese da TV (diz Don Tapscott)

«Many people think the new media and television are analogous because they both involve screens. For example. the term screenagers has been used to describe today's youth. TV viewers and Net surfers alike have been called couch potatoes. (...) Those who say that the Net is all about a bigger crop of couch potatoes not only have a cynical view of humanity, but they ignore the budding experience with interactive technologies. Unfortunately for these commentators and fortunately for kids, the similarities between the two technologies end with the screen. In fact, the shift is more like from couch potato to Nintendo jockey.

Tv is controlled by adults. Kids are passive observers. In contrast, children control much or their world on the Net. It is something they do themselves; they are users, and they are active. They do not just observe, they participate. They inquire, discuss, argue, play, shop, critique, investigate, ridicule, fantasize, seek, and inform. This makes the Internet fundamentally different from previous communications innovations, such as the development of the printing press or the introduction of radio and television broadcasting. These latter technologies are unidirectional and controlled by adults. They are very hierarchical. inflexible, and centralized. Not surprisingly, they reflect the values of their adult owners. By contrast, the new nedia is interactive. malleable. and distributed in control.(...) This distinction is at the heart of the new generation. For the first time ever, children are taking control of critical elements of a communications revolution» (25-26)