The Digital Is Kid Stuff av Josef Nguyen

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<P><B>How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America</B><BR/> </P><P>“The children are our future” goes the adage, a proclamation that simultaneously declares both anxiety as well as hope about youth as the next generation. In <I>The Digital Is Kid Stuff</I>, Josef Nguyen interrogates this ambivalence within discussions about today’s “digital generation” and the future of creativity, an ambivalence that toggles between the techno-pessimism that warns against the harm to children of too much screen time and a techno-utopianism that foresees these “digital natives” leading the way to innovation, economic growth, increased democratization, and national prosperity. </P><P>Nguyen engages cultural histories of childhood, youth, and creativity through chapters that are each anchored to a particular digital media object or practice. Nguyen narrates the developmental arc