Download The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World AudioBook Free
No one has failed to notice that the existing generation of young ones is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital multimedia. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's teenagers The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what this means to be "app-dependent" versus "app-enabled" and how life for this generation varies from life prior to the digital age. Gardner and Davis are worried with three essential areas of adolescent life: identification, intimacy, and imagination. Through impressive research, including interviews of teenagers, focus sets of those who work with them, and a unique comparison ofyouthful creative productions before and after the digital trend, the authors uncover the disadvantages of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identification, encourage superficial relationships with others, and stunt creative imagination. On the other hand, the benefits associated with apps are evenly impressive: they can promote a solid sense of identification, allow deep interactions, and stimulate imagination. The challenge is to project beyond the ways that apps are designed to be utilized, Gardner and Davis conclude, plus they suggest the way the power of applications can be considered a springboard to higher creativity and higher dreams.
