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
By Jean M. Twenge PhD
Read by Madeleine Maby
Unabridged
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Library CD (In Stock)
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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781508281627
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ISBN: 9781508245070
Runtime: | 9.88 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A Wired Magazine Pick of Best Tech Books of 2017
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 to the mid-2000s and later, 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 why they are experiencing 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. iGen is also growing up more slowly than previous generations: eighteen-year-olds look and act like fifteen-year-olds used to.
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.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“iGen is a game-changer and this decade’s ‘must-read’ for parents, educators, and leaders. Her findings are riveting, her points are compelling, her solutions are invaluable.” —Michele Borba, EdD, educational psychologist and author of UnSelfie
“iGen will change the way you think about the next generation of Americans.” —Julianna Miner, professor of Public Health, George Mason University
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
Runtime: | 9.88 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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