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The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

Katie Davis
3.37/5 (250 ratings)
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No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply—some would say totally—involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.

Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination. On the other hand, the benefits of apps are equally striking: they can promote a strong sense of identity, allow deep relationships, and stimulate creativity. The challenge is to venture beyond the ways that apps are designed to be used, Gardner and Davis conclude, and they suggest how the power of apps can be a springboard to greater creativity and higher aspirations.

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Talk about Technology
3. Unpacking the Generations: From biology to culture to technology
4. Personal Identity in the Age of the App
5. Apps and Intimate Relationships
6. Acts (and Apps) of Imagination among Today's Youth
7. Conclusion: Beyond the App Generation

Methodological Appendix
Notes
Index
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0300196210
ISBN13:
9780300196214
kindle Asin:
B00FOR57R0

The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

Katie Davis
3.37/5 (250 ratings)
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No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply—some would say totally—involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.

Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination. On the other hand, the benefits of apps are equally striking: they can promote a strong sense of identity, allow deep relationships, and stimulate creativity. The challenge is to venture beyond the ways that apps are designed to be used, Gardner and Davis conclude, and they suggest how the power of apps can be a springboard to greater creativity and higher aspirations.

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Talk about Technology
3. Unpacking the Generations: From biology to culture to technology
4. Personal Identity in the Age of the App
5. Apps and Intimate Relationships
6. Acts (and Apps) of Imagination among Today's Youth
7. Conclusion: Beyond the App Generation

Methodological Appendix
Notes
Index
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0300196210
ISBN13:
9780300196214
kindle Asin:
B00FOR57R0

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