Generational Myth - ChronicleReview.com
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Saved by 6 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-09-17
- Lspiro on 2008-09-28 - Tags students , future_library_services , millennials
- Aljean on 2008-09-23 - Tags digital , natives , technology , pedagogy , critical
- Khalido on 2008-09-23 - Tags internet
- Scmorgan on 2008-09-20 - Tags chroniclereview , technology , education
- Taryn930 on 2008-09-17 - Tags digital_native , academia , marketing , class , education , facebook , e-books , Hume , Durkheim
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Many use Facebook and MySpace because they are easy and fun, not because they are powerful (which, of course, they are not). And almost none know how to program or even code text with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Only a handful come to college with a sense of how the Internet fundamentally differs from the other major media platforms in daily life.
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And they all (I mean all) tell me that they prefer the technology of the bound book to the PDF or Web page. What kids, like the rest of us, don't like is the price of books.
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visits to public libraries in the United States increased 61 percent from 1994 to 2004
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Once we assume that all young people love certain forms of interaction and hate others, we forge policies and design systems and devices that match those presumptions.
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Invoking "generations" demands an exclusive focus on people of wealth and means, because they get to express their preferences (for music, clothes, technology, etc.) in ways that are easy to count. It tends to exclude immigrants and non-English-speaking Americans, not to mention those who live beyond the borders of the United States. And it excludes anyone on the margins of mainstream consumer or cultural behavior
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Mannheim answered Hume by positing that generations are not dem-ographically determined, but historically. Big events forge common identities. And proximity to an experience matters more than birth year.
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kids today are fundamentally different from the rest of us because their default modes of interaction involve mixing and mashing digital files and exposing (and rewriting) themselves through online profiles and avatars. That assumption bolsters the policy positions that the investigators already embraced: that the law should allow young people to remix and share bits of culture, while helping them respect and manage privacy. The policy goals are laudable. And the research is interesting. But Palfrey and Gasser did not need to render young people exotic to make their points. The concept of "born digital" flattens out the needs and experiences of young people into a uniform wish list of policies that conveniently matches the agenda of digital enthusiasts and entrepreneurs of all ages.
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on 2008-09-17 by taryn930
Yes. And in fact the most intriguing aspects of Born Digital are the authors themselves.
Howe and Strauss go to show you that you'll never go broke in America marketing to marketers
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on 2008-09-17 by taryn930