Bournemouth students in media black-out experiment

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This article mentioned about an experiment which are taken place around the globe.
Its' name is media black-out experiment , which means during the experiment time , candidates are not permitted to use radio , tv , the internet and mobile phones for 24 hours.

Before entering the experiment , some people just don't think it's a big deal for banning to access any media.
One candidate said "At first I thought it would just be not e-mailing or texting, I didn't appreciate how much media there is all around me in day-to-day life "

After the experiment , the researcher found that candidates are not used to living without media.
Some people felt scary and isolating during the experiment.
Some people felt isolated because they were unable to coordinate the social meetings during the experiment.  In an earlier pilot study, people reported feelings similar to alcohol or drug addiction withdrawal symptoms.
But there're still some advantages appearing on some people , they are talking to others a lot more and reading more their text books than usual.
They spent less time on searching university's intranet and spent more times on ohter people and texts book.

The BBC's technology correspondent said , people are lived in a world with new forms of technology around them .
And the correspondent said , he relies on media very much , so that he couldn't do anythings without the assisstance from media.