The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media M eans for Our Future

S. Craig Watkins

The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media M eans for Our Future
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Beacon Press
Country
United States
Published
7 September 2010
Pages
272
ISBN
9780807006160

The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media M eans for Our Future

S. Craig Watkins

In The Young and the Digital, S. Craig Watkins skillfully draws from more than 500 surveys and 350 in-depth interviews with young people, parents, and educators to understand how a digital lifestyle is affecting the ways youth learn, play, bond, and communicate. Timely and deeply relevant, the book covers the influence of MySpace and Facebook, the growing appetite for anytime, anywhere media and fast entertainment, how online digital gates reinforce race and class divisions, and how technology is transforming America’s classrooms. Watkins also debunks popular myths surrounding cyberpredators, Internet addiction, and social isolation. The result is a fascinating portrait, both celebratory and wary, about the coming of age of the first fully wired generation.;;

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