Digital Natives

Dissent and the Digital Natives

Andrew Lenoir | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Politics, Third Party, Anonymous, Occupy Wall Street, Lulzsec, Democracy, Presidential Election, Democrats, Tea Party, Digital Natives, The Nation Magazine, College News
Andrew Lenoir

While discontent with politics as usual is not new, the means of dealing with the system's structure is changing quickly. Maybe the Internet isn't here to allow us to escape our world, but change it for the better.

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Are the Kids All Right? The "Digital Natives"

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Development, Coppa, Children's Privacy, Children, Federal Communications Commission, Communications Decency Act, Angry Birds, Federal Trade Commission, Digital Natives, Privacy, Hemu Nigam, Cyberbullying, Learning to Play Angry Birds Before You Can Tie Your Shoes, Digital Revolution, Wall Street Journal, Wsj, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

Concern for children has been an issue since the popularization of Internet use in the mid-1990s. But while children of the digital revolution they are, natives of culture driven by the digital they are not.

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Am I Better Than Facebook?

Claire Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Immigrants, Social Networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Weak Ties, Facebook, Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books, Suburbia, Software, Revolutions, Facebook Friends, Minimalism, Eliminating Desire, Digital Natives, Cocktail Party, Myspace, Race, Dana Boyd, Social Inequality, Class, Technology News
Claire Gordon

Facebook me is better than actual me. Smarter, wittier, funner, prettier. But does Facebook, as a platform, reduce the richness of my personhood? Absolutely.

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The Social Disconnect -- How Hollywood Misread Facebook

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jesse Eisenberg, Jav on Tech, Twitter, Millenials, The Social Network, Social Networking, Aaron Sorkin, Mark Zuckerberg, David Fincher, Justin Timberlake, Facebook, Digital Natives, Tyler Clementi, Technology News
Jose Antonio Vargas

Whatever else The Social Network is, the film represents the biggest culmination yet of old media's disdain and misreading of new media. It's a movie about social networking born out of a fundamental disconnect.

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Lessons from the failed Facebook exodus

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Openness, Y-Gen, Social Media, Innovation, Privacy, Facebook, Digital Natives, Business News
Brett King

The 1st of June was supposed to be "Quit Facebook Day" as a protest over Facebook's privacy policies. But the 1st of June passed by and as far as I am...

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What loss of trust in banks really means...

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gfc, Social Media, Behavior, Trust, Profits, Banks, Digital Natives, Y-Gen, Business News
Brett King

This week we have some of the world's biggest banks recording staggering, record profits - despite this there are serious challenges heading the banks...

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8 Easy Ways to Get Digital Natives Wild about Reading

Sharon Duke Estroff | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Pbs, Ipod, Parenting Tips, Children, Digital-Natives, Xbox 360, Where the Wild Things Are, Book Clubs, Random House, Parenting, PlayStation 3, Facebook, Nintendo Wii, iPhone Apps, Kaiser Family Foundation, Education, Scholastic, Reading, Parenting Advice, Healthy Living News
Sharon Duke Estroff

It's no wonder kids don't read books anymore. A Kaiser study reveals children ages 8 to 18 log an average of 7.5 hours of screen time daily.

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