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• Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:35 AM

  Generation Generalizations

  This brutal takedown of Mark Baurlein's The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, or Don't Trust Anyone Under Thirty over at the Huffington Post raises some good points about the perennial efforts Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: popular culture, Social Trends, Millennials

• Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:05 PM

  Helicopter Parents and Free-Range Kids

  A couple of weeks ago, there was a minor furor caused by Lenore Skenazy, a New York parent who allowed - even encouraged - her 9 year-old son to find his own way back from Bloomingdale's to their home on the Upper West Side, riding the subway on his own. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Social Trends, Millennials

• Friday, April 18, 2008 1:21 PM

  China's Millennials

  American Millennials enjoy (or perhaps not) a reputation as conformists and group-thinkers among some generation-watchers, but apparently they have nothing on their peers in the PRC. My old pal Matt Forney had a piece on the New York Times Op-Ed page Read More... Posted by Rob | 2 Comments Filed under: Social Trends, Millennials

• Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:41 PM

  Way Past Normal

  Clay Shirky writes : "Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. The invention of a tool doesn't create change; it has to be around long enough that most of society is using it... for our young people today, Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: Web 2.0, Social Trends, Millennials, collaboration and social computing

• Friday, March 14, 2008 10:06 AM

  Teens and Transparent Technology

  Posts today over at Salon (" What's the Matter with Kids Today? Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic that the Internet is melting their brains ") and SmartMobs (" A Poor Excuse for a Social Life ") offer two different takes on one of the more interesting Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Social Trends, Millennials

• Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:37 AM

  Generations International

  Generation Blend draws most of its data about generational attitudes and experiences from the United States. There's every reason to believe that the digital age gap exists around the world, especially in societies that made an abrupt transition from Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: generational theory, Social Trends, Millennials