Grown Up Digital
How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
BBB Library: Technology and Globalization
ISBN: 9780071508636
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Grown Up Digital reveals: How the brain of the Net Generation processes information. Today's young people are using technology in ways you could never imagine. Instead of passively watching television, the Net Geners are actively participating in the distribution of entertainment and information. For the first time in history, youth are the authorities on something really important. And they're changing every aspect of our society-from the workplace to the marketplace, from the classroom to the living room, from the voting booth to the Oval Office.
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