Week 8 - Article 2 Abstract

This article by Don Tapscott is in short, a timeline of how media has changed. By using his own experiences and a few references. His main argument is how there's a 'net generation'. A generation that consists of 0-20 year olds, who have different habits to their predecessors, 'they learn, work, play, communicate, shop, and create communities very differently than their parents'. Their use of media is different and find tv unfulling.

This article may not be relevant as it probably was back in 1998 but it does reflect on how the digital divide started and reflects back to Prensky's work, suggesting that this new 'net-generation' are the 'digital natives' and their parents being 'digital immigrants'. The article is split up into sections, with Tapscott explaining how these children cope with education, leisure time and fit this new media into their everyday lives.

Tapscott is explaining his views on american technological changes, however being that the UK runs alongside America in terms of technological change, and on some scale countries have become americanised, a reader like myself could easily understand what the author of this article is saying.