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...,. The Age of the Digital Native or M-Ager (Mobile-Ager)
For the vast majority of young people, the digital world is a far from isolating experience. It extends
reach and connectivity, building on physical or close relationships as well as providing opportunit
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interact and build friendships with people who are not geographically close to them. Young people
associate the internet with a strong sense of community and as a place where similar people can meet
and share together. It is likely that young people have far wider and more varied support communities
than previous generations had.
Young people are often characterised as being visually literate and as having highly developed visual
spatial skills. Indeed, it has been argued that through this age group we are moving toward a more visual
right brain-orientated society with an emphasis on 'creators and meaning makers' and that young people
represent the vanguard. They are experiential, shift their attention from one task to another with great
rapidity, are highly digitally literate (in how they use the media) and are well connected in a social
context. Importantly, whilst older groups may judge on line against an ideal of face-to-face
communication (although this is changing), young people evaluate against a wide range of options
including instant message, chat, phone, SMS and face-to-face according to their communication needs.
These might range from immediacy, message complexity, mobility to cost, privacy, or embarrassment.
This is a response to both the simple presence and availability of technology and to social and
environmental change. In combination it demonstrates how young people use today's tools and
communication opportunities to connect to the world and to establish and maintain their identities.
Although there is much debate, it should be considered that this virtual communication and connectivity
is not necessarily to the detriment of more established physically rooted behaviours. Rather, it represents
the degree to which, particularly this group, lives hybrid lives - lives that combine digital access and
virtual communication into their physical lives.
Answer the questions below. Choose NO MORE THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
1 What does the digital world expand for digital natives?
2 What standard do older people measure online communication against?
3 How m
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ght young people's lives be described nowadays?
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