Growing Up in Technological Worlds

How Modern Technologies Shape the Everyday Lives of Young People

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20359065
AutoresClaus J Tully (0000-0003-2398-2556, Deutsches Jugendinstitut, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume23
Fascículo6
Páginas444-456
Data de publicação2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBulletin of Science Technology & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0270-4676 • E-ISSN: 1552-4183
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0270467603260812
OpenAlexW2014291563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas8

The purpose of this article is to show how young people typically interact with technology. Young people take up modern technology and incorporate it in their everyday lives more rapidly and more unceremoniously than others. As they make use of technical artifacts, the everyday lives of young people change, as does their perception of society, because it is through the artifacts that relationships with others are organized. The significance of technology in young people’s everyday lives remains largely unexplored. This deficiency clearly contrasts with an information society, the very basis of which is supposed to be the knowledge of its organizing principles. This article reports on recent findings of how clearly defined social relationships disintegrate because of new technologies and on how young people are challenged to put the applications that technology offers to them into new contexts. The idea is to make a subjectively important choice among the large variety of options given. It shows that technology is no longer result but rather experience oriented. One can foresee the considerable consequences not only for politics, education, and technology development but also for research done in the social sciences

Emerging technologies · Epistemology · Everyday life · Perception · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Media, Communication, and Education · Psychology · Social Media and Politics