What are you made of? What am I? What aspect of ourselves and our studies will prove most useful during my employed lives? Even now, some realisations are becoming prematurely clear.
For me, it might be the pure fluke of what year I was born. Somehow I have grown up not before, nor after, but in time with the great social revolutions ignited by the web, and new media. I have my own unique memories of waiting an hour to watch that first .mp3 download. Of explaining what MySpace was/is to my friends, or what the hell I was doing on Facebook, or now Twitter. What was I doing?
What are we doing?
How broad of a shared experience is this? Cherie describes in her post Baffling Technology the ability of the Gen Y population to adapt to new technologies. This is dissimilar to one generation liking different music to the next.
This speaks to a generation of people who have been born into a constantly shifting environment. And more importantly, one that they care passionately about (Gill, 2007, 13). Gen Y has in this area, if not in any other in their lives just yet, more use and experience than the mature workforce.
But if they are not up to this new challenge, then we will gladly take it. I mean, we're online anyway, right?
'How a scarce few might see us…'
Source: http://quitegeist.com/2010/09/23/10-ways-to-deal-with-facebook-withdrawal/
Reference List
Gill, R. (2007). Informality is the New Black. In Technobohemians or the New Cybertariat? New Media Work In Amsterdam a Decade After the Web. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures: 13, 24-30 & 38-43
