The app generation [electronic resource] : how today's youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world / Howard Gardner and Katie Davis.
Gardner, Howard, 1943-; Davis, Katie (Assistant professor)
2013
HQ799.9.I58 G37 2013eb
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Title The app generation [electronic resource] : how today's youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world / Howard Gardner and Katie Davis.
Author Gardner, Howard, 1943-
ISBN 9780300199185 (electronic book)
030019918X (electronic book)
9780300196214
0300196210
Imprint New Haven, Conneticut : Yale University Press, c2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations
Call Number HQ799.9.I58 G37 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 004.67/80835
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-230) and index.
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Preface
Introduction
Talk ab out 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.

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