Radio report: Students struggle going media-free for 24 hours

Could you go without your mobile phone for 24 hours? Or how about your Facebook account?

That was the challenge for 200 University of Maryland students who gave up all media for one day.

Some cheated.

Some had friends hide their phones and change their passwords.

But overall, the students reported feeling addicted to media, describing the 24 hours without it with terms like "isolation," "disconnected" and "anxious" -- a feeling shared by Maryland student Gloria Johnston.

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For News Radio, this is Erin Klema reporting.

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