Monday, August 28, 2017

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

 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 



(link: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1501151983).



It presents 10 trends that have shaped the first generation to grow up with smartphones: 



(1) In No Hurry: Growing up slowly, 



(2) Internet: Online time–oh, and other media, too, 



(3) In Person No More, 



(4) Insecure: The new mental health crisis, 



(5) Irreligious, 



(6) Insulated but not intrinsic: More safety and less community, 



(7) Income Insecurity: Working to earn, 



(8) Indefinite: Sex, marriage, and children,



(9) Inclusive: LGBT, gender, and race issues, and 



(10) Independent: 



Politics and civic involvement. iGen, born roughly 1995-2012, is sometimes called GenZ (but if Millennials are not GenY, GenZ won’t stick as a label). Shaped by smartphones, income inequality, and individualism, iGen’ers are noticeably different from their Millennial predecessors.



https://books.google.pt/books?id=50MyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA343&lpg=PA343&dq=book+igen+university+of+chicago&source=bl&ots=prh5atHdiQ&sig=BSsDEOymPIMBNMHSHigQ7Vrfi_o&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=book%20igen%20university%20of%20chicago&f=false

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