@article{1398679,
      recid = {1398679},
      author = {Gardner, Howard, and Davis, Katie},
      title = {The app generation how today's youth navigate identity,  intimacy, and imagination in a digital world / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven, Conneticut :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398679},
}