TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gardner,Howard
AU  - Davis,Katie
TI  - The app generation: how today's youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world 
SN  - 9780300196214 (hardback)
AV  - HQ 799.9 .I58 G37 2013 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Internet and youth
KW  - Youth
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Technology and youth
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Creative ability in adolescence
KW  - Application software
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Sociale netwerken
KW  - gtt
KW  - Technische ontwikkeling
KW  - Jongeren
KW  - Software
KW  - App
KW  - gnd
KW  - Internet
KW  - Neue Medien
KW  - Jugendsoziologie
KW  - Techniksoziologie
KW  - Entwicklungspsychologie
KW  - Kreativit�at
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pagws 209-230) and index; Talk about 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
N2  - " 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"--
ER  -