The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

To explain how technologies affect people, the authors reference Marshall McLuhan and the inventions of the Gutenberg press, television, and computers to demonstrate how technologies became personal and full of activities as people gained more control to circulate content. Because digital media technologies offer new ways for young people to participate online, the authors explain that these technologies are the keys that shape today's generation called the App Generation. [...]the authors resist conclusively stating whether the App Generation is app enabling or app dependent.