The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807006165 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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S. Craig Watkins writes about youth, media, technology, and society. He is Professor of radio-TV-film at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement and Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema.
Maybe even more remarkable is what a focused account Watkins has produced about a media climate that is still in flux, in which he ponders questions that may not be answered until this moment in media history has long passed.”—Belinda Acosta, Austin Chronicle “Bracing yet reassuring, often surprising, and always substantive, Craig Watkins acts as an honest broker, testing the contradictory claims often made about young people’s digital lives against sophisticated fieldwork.”—Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide“Watkins convincingly captures the digital world inhabited by today’s young a
CraigWatkins skillfully draws from more than 500 surveys and 350 in-depth interviews with young people, parents, and educators to understand how a digital lifestyle is affecting the ways youth learn, play, bond, and communicate. In The Young and the Digital, S. Timely and deeply relevant, the book covers the influence of MySpace and Facebook, the growing appetite for “anytime, anywhere” media and “fast entertainment,” how online “digital gates” reinforce race and class divisions, and how technology is transforming America’s classrooms. Watkins also debunks popular myths surrounding cyberpredators, Internet addiction, and social isolation. The result is a fascinating portrait, both celebratory and wary, about the coming of age of the first fully wired generation.
"Great Survey of Young People And Their Use of Digital Media" according to Dr. Marc Axelrod. This book will get you up to date on what life is like for teens and tweens and twenty somethings. There is an opening survey of the history of technology in the home, starting in the days when most people just had a radio and a phone. But the narrative quickly moves into the present century. You read about the rise of the internet, email, instant messenger services, My Space, and now, Fa. A Complex Review of SM Marktion Line I've read five books so far for my graduate school research and the most substantial ones are Wikinomics and The Young and The Digital which is a more scholar and complete study yet easy and fun to read.Disappointing books on this topic are:1. The Cluetrain Manifesto which misleadingly is rated 4.5 stars. However, you can buy it new for 38 cents (that should have given me a clue).2. Here . An up-to-date, balanced look at the digital world I found this book to be engaging to read and well-balanced in how it evaluated the digital patterns of young adults and teens. In the past year, I have been researching "Internet Addiction" and so much of the writing and research feels very sensationalized. In this book, I got the opportunity to look at how young adults engage with technology and understand the patterns as part of the cul