Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation

Synopsis of Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation

«Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation» is Don Tapscott's essay published by McGraw-Hill in hardback (338 pages, in English).

Don Tapscott, who coined the term «generation Net», analyses how young people educated with the Internet learn, work, shop, play and communicate differently from their parents. Faced with the passivity of television, the Net offers interaction and control; the author argues that this generation will set the economic, political and cultural agenda.

First edition; includes bibliographic references (pages 319-323) and index.

Aimed at businesspeople, parents and educators interested in the impact of the Internet on new generations.