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Loading... Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Nativesby John Palfrey
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Not bad, but of course all the up to date references to various Web 2.0 tools are going to be come dated (authors have a eponymous website to keep book up to date). I also found some of the chapter on copyright disturbing (agree with previous reviewer's assessment of the fanfiction discussion -- which usually would not be considered infrigement and authors seemed to imply it was). Also, author seemed to imply that characters were protected by copyright -- they are not. Weird because both authors are lawyers. Anyway, interesting read. Other stuff out there covers similar ground. See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASI...  gooutsideandplay | Nov 7, 2009 |  A highly readable introduction to the cultural anthropology of digerati. In spite of being a printed monograph, it is current in its concepts and examples. The initial chapters are descriptive and, therefore, more interesting than the final chapters, which are more prescriptive. (  ) Informatix95 | Sep 20, 2009 | MsPibel | Jun 12, 2009 | Born Digital is a pretty good approach to "Digital Natives," even if I felt like it was obvious it wasn't written by a Digital Native itself. I really appreciated that Palfrey appeared to understand that Digital Natives genuinely think in different ways than non-natives do - and that that isn't a bad thing.It was a little odd that throughout the book the words "Digital Natives" were capitalized; it also made me feel a little bit like he was writing about some obscure jungle tribe. But then I suppose that new media are about as weird and scary as the jungle to most older folks.One quibble: Palfrey clearly doesn't understand fanfiction or the laws surrounding it very well, so if you read this book, you ought to ignore that part. It's only a small section, but it really got under my skin. Suffice to say that most fanfiction is covered under "fair use" because it constitutes a commentary on the original text - not just a continuation of it. (  ) flourishing | Mar 17, 2009 | Born Digital is a pretty good approach to "Digital Natives," even if I felt like it was obvious it wasn't written by a Digital Native itself. I really appreciated that Palfrey appeared to understand that Digital Natives genuinely think in different ways than non-natives do - and that that isn't a bad thing.It was a little odd that throughout the book the words "Digital Natives" were capitalized; it also made me feel a little bit like he was writing about some obscure jungle tribe. But then I suppose that new media are about as weird and scary as the jungle to most older folks.One quibble: Palfrey clearly doesn't understand fanfiction or the laws surrounding it very well, so if you read this book, you ought to ignore that part. It's only a small section, but it really got under my skin. Suffice to say that most fanfiction is covered under "fair use" because it constitutes a commentary on the original text - not just a continuation of it. ( ) flourishing | Mar 17, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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The most enduring change wrought by the digital revolution is neither the new business models nor the new search algorithms, but rather the massive generation gap between those who were born digital and those who were not. The first generation of "digital natives"--children who were born into and raised in the digital world--is now 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, and what is the world they're 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 and advancing new theories, 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 value 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?
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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