- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books (5 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0465005152
- ISBN-13: 978-0465005154
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 136,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"While some of the facts are scary, there's never a whiff of scaremongering. Jargon is explained, myths debunked and common sense placed firmly on a pinnacle."
--BBC Focus Magazine
--BBC Focus Magazine
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The first generation of digital natives - children who were born into and raised in the digital world - are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our cultural life, even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. But who are these digital natives? How are they different from older generations - or digital immigrants - and what is the world theyre creating going to look like? In Born Digital, leading internet and technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser offer a sociological portrait of this exotic tribe of young people who can seem, even to those merely a generation older, both extraordinarily sophisticated and strangely narrow. Based on original research, Born Digital explores a broad range of issues, from the highly philosophical to the purely practical: What does identity mean for young people who have dozens of online profiles and avatars? Should we worry about privacy issues - or is privacy even a relevant concern for digital natives? How does the concept of safety translate into an increasingly virtual world? Is stranger-danger a real problem, or a red herring? What lies ahead - socially, professionally, and psychologically - for this generation? A smart, practical guide to a brave new world and its complex inhabitants, Born Digital will be essential reading for parents, teachers, and the myriad of confused adults who want to understand the digital present - and shape the digital future.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book both as an internet professional and as a mother. I found the book thought-provoking and in places quite scary, especially the chapters on digital dossiers and security. However, even by the second chapter I'd noticed that pattern that the answer to all the problems the book discussed, lies with parents and teachers. The basic premise is that none of the problems faced by digital natives is new - it's just that the age-old problems faced by young people today are happening in a different environment. If parents educate their children about the internet in the same way they do about life in general, we wouldn't have to be writing books about it.
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This is a respectable book that at least engages on a critical level with the myths that surround the so-called 'Digital Natives'. The two best observations are that 1. they are not a generation but a population within one, and 2. their ability to synthesise will produce a different type of society, rather than a better or worse one. The structure of the book is praiseworthy, but whilst the chapters are on the right topics, 'Identities', 'Innovators', 'Learners' etc., they are variable in quality. Quite legalistic in its disposition, it does identify the problems when mass action runs ahead of the legal system itself, but falls down when it treats the Internet as if it is just another communications technology in need of regulation. It is far more powerful than that. Against a background of polemic books on the subject, this comes across as a reasonable account, even if the examples are fairly hackneyed.
Format:Paperback
Well, could not go past Chapter 2... unbearable.
It might be for you, but do try to read some pages before buying it...
It might be for you, but do try to read some pages before buying it...
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