As a result, they value instant gratification and receiving information quickly above all else.
Many television viewers, of sports and other programming, are constantly surfing — among channels, even among mediums — in an endless quest for information, interaction, instant gratification.
App stores already have users' credit card information, and the gratification of a download is instant.
This study investigated the impact of this prime-time link on viewer attention, satisfaction, information recall, and perceptions about the uses and gratifications delivered by a news story.
Results from structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis revealed that respondents who were driven by gratifications of information seeking, socializing, and status seeking were more likely to share news in social media platforms.
Consequently, this coexistence with technology comes with an inherent need for instant gratification and access to information.
Wearable technology gives you instant gratification while offering retailers, information providers and other companies the ability to personalize your every experience.
Instead, other users interact (both positively and negatively) to the information being shared, which provides citizen journalists with immediate gratification and feedback for their efforts.
But then he returned to upbeat, supercharged, overflowing, zany pop, applying all his sounds, technology and ideas toward immediate gratification and the joys of far too much sonic information.
5), highlighting the important role librarians play assisting patrons lost in the information wilderness of the Internet age: Seduced by the prospect of immediate gratification, it is no wonder why so many people turn to Web search engines.
