The Young and the Digital

Zusatztext With thorough research! deep thinking! and lively prose! Watkins adds enormously to our understanding of how the combination of new media and a new generation is changing the world. Read this refreshing book to understand our future! Don Tapscott! coauthor of Wikinomics and author of Grown Up Digital The best and most nuanced report yet from the digital frontier. James Paul Gee! author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy A must-read for parents and educators! Anastasia Goodstein! author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online The Young and the Digital is remarkably readable. 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 adults while illustrating what the digital landscape means for our future. Michael X. Delli Carpini! dean! Annenberg School for Communication! University of Pennsylvania Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext In The Young and the Digital! S. Craig Watkins 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. 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. From chapter one, "Digital Migration: Young People's Historic Move to the Online World" The diffusion of the Internet in American homes was considerably more rapid than the computer. The Census Bureau's Current Popu­lation Survey began probing Americans about home Internet use in 1997. That year 18 percent of households in America reported using the Internet. At the start of the millennium, in the year 2000, four in ten households, or 40 percent, were connected to the Internet. By the close of 2001 more than 50 percent of American homes were access­ing the Web. Sixty-two million households, or 55 percent, had Internet access by 2003. That was more than triple the proportion of Inter­net households in 1997. Nearly all households with a computer in 2003, 88 percent, had access to the Internet. Indeed, by the late 1990s the Internet was the primary motivation for purchasing a computer, as the two, in effect, became synonymous. Our lives, needless to say, have never been the same. The generation of young people we met came of age in technology-rich households. In fact, they were the first generation of American teens to grow up with computers and the Internet literally at their ...

ldquo;With thorough research, deep thinking, and lively prose, Watkins adds enormously to our understanding of how the combination of new media and a new generation is changing the world. Read this refreshing book to understand our future!”
—Don Tapscott, coauthor of Wikinomics and author of Grown Up Digital
 
“The best and most nuanced report yet from the digital frontier.”
—James Paul Gee, author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
 
“A must-read for parents and educators!”
—Anastasia Goodstein, author of *Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online

“*The Young and the Digital is remarkably readable. 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 adults while illustrating what the digital landscape means for our future.” —Michael X. Delli Carpini, dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

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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.

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In The Young and the Digital, S. Craig Watkins 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. 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.

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In The Young and the Digital, S. Craig **Watkins 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. 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. 

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**From chapter one, "Digital Migration: Young People’s Historic Move to the Online World"

**The diffusion of the Internet in American homes was considerably more rapid than the computer. The Census Bureau’s Current Popu­lation Survey began probing Americans about home Internet use in 1997. That year 18 percent of households in America reported using the Internet. At the start of the millennium, in the year 2000, four in ten households, or 40 percent, were connected to the Internet. By the close of 2001 more than…