Multitasking+in+Icarly

Research Question: How do children on ICarly handle the use of multitasking technology, and whether it is making kids dumb down or having no effect at all on academic performance? I want to research the effect of multitasking technology for teens on ICarly and examine how they manage using all the different technologies at once while comparing the show with scholarly articles on the effect multitasking has on children's academic and social performances.

Method: My method would be to watch episodes of ICarly and take note on how, why, and when a teen is using two or more different technologies at once or in a relative short time period from one another. With my findings i will compare them with modern scholarly articles on the effect multitasking has on children, and whether they are leading to social or academic problems.

Expectations: I expect to see many examples of teens using two or more technologies at once, and based on their judgments at the time of multitasking, I will try to examine a pattern to whether it has any effect on them socially or mentally. In my research with scholarly journals, i expect to see a mixed array of different works that either say multitasking has no effect on children today or multitasking does have a correlation with social and academic performance. I then expect to be able to compare and contrast my findings on the show with what I find in my research.