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App Generation How TodayS Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

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ISBN-10: 0300196210

ISBN-13: 9780300196214

Edition: 2014

Authors: Howard Gardner, Katie Davis

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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 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…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Talk about Technology
Unpacking the Generations: From Biology to Culture to Technology
Personal Identity in the Age of the App
Apps and Intimate Relationships
Acts (and Apps) of Imagination among Today's Youth
Conclusion: Beyond the App Generation
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Index