The Digital Generation
Thanks to JP for the pointer to this article penned by Steven Johnson (author of a number of very interesting books including one of my favorites Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.)
Today’s kids see the screen as an environment to be explored, inhabited, shared and shaped. They’re blogging. They’re building their MySpace pages. They’re constructing elaborate fan sites for their favorite artists or TV shows. They’re playing immensely complicated games, like Civilization IV–one of the most popular computer games in the U.S. last fall–in which players re-create the entire course of human economic and technological history. I believe this dramatic spike in digital participation is, for the most part, sharpening the minds of Generation M, not dumbing them down.
Generation M is the digital generation.
