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

Gardner, Howard; Davis, Katie

 
9780300196214: The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
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ISBN 10 : 0300196210 ISBN 13 : 9780300196214
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 spellbinding 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Howard Gardner is Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and senior director of Harvard Project Zero, an educational research group. He lives in Cambridge, MA. Katie Davis is assistant professor, University of Washington Information School, where she studies the role of digital media technologies in adolescents' lives. She lives in Seattle, WA.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300196210
ISBN 13 
9780300196214
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0300209347 ISBN 13 :  9780300209341
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2014
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