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iGen

Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

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iGen

Von: Jean M. Twenge PhD PhD
Gesprochen von: Madeleine Maby
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 “We’ve all been desperate to learn what heavy use of social media does to adolescents. Now, thanks to Twenge’s careful analysis, we know: It is making them lonely, anxious, and fragile—especially our girls. If you are a parent, teacher, or employer, you must read this fascinating book.”—Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation

Born after 1995, the smartphone generation grew up with cell phones, had an Instagram page before high school, and cannot remember a time before the Internet. They are iGen, and this essential book reveals how these teens and young adults differ from millennials and every other generation in their mental health, social behaviors, and attitudes toward politics and religion.

With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults.

Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality.

As this new group of young people grows into adulthood, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

*As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR* Anthropologie Geschichte & Kultur Soziologie

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The strength of the book is the many stats on how and what the iGen thinks and feels and believes. Yet, it also gets a little tedious at times and difficult to remember as so many numbers are mentioned. The main hypothesis of the book, though, that growing up with a smartphone changes and has effects on how young people grow up, experience and feel about the world and themselves, I think will hold up.
I think the author is right in cautioning about the overuse of this new media/gadget, but at the same time also sceptical, because of course the use is not unproblematic, but the use of radio, books, television weren't either - they also brought changes, good and bad. Personally, I'm much to old to be an iGen, yet I also use my screens all the time now and all though there has been some social costs to it, on balance I think prefer the way it is now. I feel that the internet and my phone has been a positive and an enrichment, though sometimes a depressing one...

Very good and timely, but also enervating.

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