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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

• Monday, May 05, 2008 7:25 AM

  The Pirate's Dilemma

  Matt Mason's The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Changing Capitalism is itself a bit of a dilemma. It's about a couple of important issues: the challenges of piracy, the evolution of intellectual property, the impact of open source models on traditional Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: popular culture

• Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:36 AM

  Business Manga and Generational Attitudes Toward Sequential Art

  "Sequential art" is a fancy way of saying "comics." Manga is of course the Japanese style of comics, now wildly popular around the world and generating readership among young people that American comics haven't experienced in many, many years. In fact, Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: popular culture

• Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:06 PM

  Lost Boys

  One of the tropes that seems to recur with depressing regularity in the American generational cycle is the death of a prominent young male celebrity - often among the first of his cohort to achieve fame in popular culture - just at the moment when his Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: generational theory, popular culture