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Gen Z, explained : the art of living in a digital age / Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw & Linda Woodhead

Katz, Roberta [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Ogilvie, Sarah, 1969- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Shaw, Jane, 1963- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Woodhead, Linda, 1964- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2021] [© 2021]

266 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 237-252

Erscheint auch als: Gen Z, Explained / Katz, Roberta [GNDNR:1018228985] (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Gen Z, explained / Roberta R. Katz (Online-Ausgabe, Ebsco)

978-0-226-79153-1 (Festeinband : GBP 18.00)

978-0-226-81498-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021016935

OCoLC: 1271898393     

MS 2150  | MS 2350  | MS 1170  | MS 7965      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ799.5

305.242

LOC-SH: Generation Z ; Generation Z -- Attitudes ; Social change ; Social values ; Technology and youth

"Our newest generation, Generation Z, or Zoomers, are coming of age in a world rife with amazing new opportunities and unprecedented challenges. Born around the time the World Wide Web made its public debut in 1995, they are "digital natives," the first generation never to know the world without the Internet. They have grown up alongside powerful global networks that offer endless information and connectivity. They have also had the clear realization that their elders know no better than they do how to navigate ongoing crises; that they and their planet have been badly betrayed by decisions which preceded them. In Gen Z, Explained, a team of social scientists set out to take a comprehensive look at this generation, drawing on wide and lively interviews, surveys, and comprehensive linguistic analysis (deploying the authors' proprietary iGen Corpus, a 70-million word collection of Gen-Z-specific English language scraped from social media, time-aligned video transcriptions, and memes). It paints a portrait of an extraordinarily challenged, thoughtful, and promising generation--while sounding a warning to their elders. The authors show that despite all the seemingly insurmountable difficulties they face, this generation continues to be idealistic about the future and highly motivated to make change"--