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Noun
MTV generation
- The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.
- 1992, PC Mag (volume 11, number 22, 22 December 1992, page 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.
- 1996, James Robert Walker & Robert V. Bellamy, Jr., Television and the Remote Control, Guilford Press, page 96:
- "Younger viewers are seen as part of the MTV generation: raised on a collage of rapidly shifting images..."
- 1998, Garry Mitchell, The Trainer's Handbook, AMACOM, page 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. "
- 2003, Patricia B. Seybold & Martin Lindstrom, Brandchild, Kogan Page, page 8:
- "Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable."
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