Born Digital: Understanding The First Generation Of Digital Natives (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
A decent primer for getting to grips with the implications of a generation growing up immersed in technology. Worth a read if you're older and trying to figure out what to do with these confounding millenials, or if you consider yourself part of this generation for some insight into how you are viewed. Quite a high level treatment of the subject overall but enough meat to provide plenty of food for thought. "Television, for instance, is a noninteractive, one-to-many medium with a remarkable ability to transform everyone within sight into a couch potato. The only way we participate in it is by turning the television on or off, by switching the channel, or by changing the volume." (114)"It's not clear that the marketplace of ideas works particularly well in a digital world. In cyberspace, the good does not always win over the bad and the ugly." (161)"Most, if not all, of the strategies used when information overload occurs share the shortcoming that some information will be lost." (196)"Digital Natives are good at collaboration, online and offline, and sometimes will do so for free on behalf of companies willing to listen to them. Digital Natives are putting into practice the idea of bottom-up innovation better than any population of consumers before them." (233)
What do You think about Born Digital: Understanding The First Generation Of Digital Natives (2008)?
Really good overview of where or students and kids are, and where we aren't, unless we catch up.
—Shadowing
Was published in 2008, and by now, many of the topics had dated information.
—jgonzalez78
Terribly written book on an important subject.
—Alicia07
