The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
Author(s): Howard Gardner
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.
General Information
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- : Yale University Press
- : Yale University Press
- : 0.281
- : 03 October 2014
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Howard Gardner
- : Paperback
- : 256
- : 3 b/w illustrations
More About The Product
"'Many of the observations... are illuminated with careful thought and research and offer a readable and intelligent summary of where we are today.' (Josh Glancy, The Sunday Times) 'Gardner is a renowned psychologist who has long decried box-ticking behaviourist approaches to education... he and Davis build a strong case that a dependency on apps is having a reductive effect on young people.' (Gautam Malkani, The Financial Times) 'A necessary book.' (Roger Lewis, Daily Mail)"
Howard Gardner is Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and senior director of Harvard Project Zero, an educational research group. He lives in Cambridge, MA. Katie Davis is assistant professor, University of Washington Information School, where she studies the role of digital media technologies in adolescents' lives. She lives in Seattle, WA.
