Being Online in Emerging Adulthood

2019 ◽  
pp. 1387-1407
Author(s):  
Martina Benvenuti ◽  
Elvis Mazzoni ◽  
Gioele Piobbico
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Problematic Use ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Web

Internet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web 2.0. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between Online and Offline lives in Emerging Adulthood. Starting by the concept of functional organ (Leont'ev, 1972) and inverse instrumentality (Ekbia & Nardi, 2012), the goal of the study is to go beyond the research on web addiction, and start to explore a model able to predict why some emerging adults have their life empowered by the web and while others get trapped in the problematic use.

Being Online in Emerging Adulthood

2019 ◽  
pp. 573-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Benvenuti ◽  
Elvis Mazzoni ◽  
Gioele Piobbico
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Problematic Use ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Web

Internet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web 2.0. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between Online and Offline lives in Emerging Adulthood. Starting by the concept of functional organ (Leont'ev, 1972) and inverse instrumentality (Ekbia & Nardi, 2012), the goal of the study is to go beyond the research on web addiction, and start to explore a model able to predict why some emerging adults have their life empowered by the web and while others get trapped in the problematic use.

Being Online in Emerging Adulthood

2017 ◽  
pp. 226-246
Author(s):  
Martina Benvenuti ◽  
Elvis Mazzoni ◽  
Gioele Piobbico
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Problematic Use ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Web

Internet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web 2.0. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between Online and Offline lives in Emerging Adulthood. Starting by the concept of functional organ (Leont'ev, 1972) and inverse instrumentality (Ekbia & Nardi, 2012), the goal of the study is to go beyond the research on web addiction, and start to explore a model able to predict why some emerging adults have their life empowered by the web and while others get trapped in the problematic use.

The Onlife in Emerging Adulthood

2020 ◽  
pp. 241-264
Author(s):  
Martina Benvenuti ◽  
Sara Giovagnoli ◽  
Melanie Keep ◽  
Elvis Mazzoni ◽  
Patrizia Selleri
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Web

Internet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the Onlife during emerging adulthood divided into two groups—youngerEA (18-24) and olderEA (25-29)—considering both the problematic and the functional side of the use of the internet. Self-esteem, self-control, online and offline social support were considered as factor that influenced the internet use habits. Typology of social networks, time spent online, device used, and number of online contacts are considered. Results show significant differences between youngerEA and olderEA in the use of the web both in problematic and functional way.

The Neogeography of Virtual Cities

2011 ◽  
pp. 270-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hudson-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Second Life ◽  
In Silico ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
Virtual City ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The City ◽  
The Web ◽  
Real City

Digital cities are moving well beyond their original conceptions as entities representing the way computers and communications are hard wired into the fabric of the city itself or as being embodied in software so the real city might be manipulated in silico for professional purposes. As cities have become more “computable,” capable of manipulation through their digital content, large areas of social life are migrating to the web, becoming online so-to-speak. Here, we focus on the virtual city in software, presenting our speculations about how such cities are moving beyond the desktop to the point where they are rapidly becoming the desktop itself. But what emerges is a desktop with a difference, a desktop that is part of the web, characterized by a new generation of interactivity between users located at any time in any place. We first outline the state of the art in virtual city building drawing on the concept of mirror worlds and then comment on the emergence of Web 2.0 and the interactivity that it presumes. We characterize these developments in terms of virtual cities through the virtual world of Second Life, showing how such worlds are moving to the point where serious scientific content and dialogue is characterizing their use often through the metaphor of the city itself.

Share wars: Sharing, theft, and the everyday production of Web 2.0 on DeviantArt

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Perkel
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
New Era ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Web

The development of Web 2.0 led to celebratory accounts about its potential to unleash human creativity. A consensus emerged that described Web 2.0 creative production as universal, democratic, communal, non-commercial, and thoroughly revolutionary. This consensus viewed young, web-savvy media makers as Web 2.0 creativity’s avant-garde: a new generation of producers, born digital, who had upended Romantic notions of creativity, authorship, ownership and related cultural practices. In this paper I draw from a multi-year ethnographic study of young creators’ use of the web from 2007 through 2010 and examine the practice and rhetoric of theft and sharing on DeviantArt, a self-described social network and community of artists. I argue that rather than overturning traditional notions of creativity, participating in DeviantArt helped young creators reaffirm traditional notions of creativity tied to the moral rights of authors to control the distribution of their work. I also demonstrate how these young media makers in turn shaped Web 2.0 ideology and technologies in practice. Seemingly well-established features for “sharing” content were actually uneasy compromises that supported multiple interpretations rather than epitomize the new era of creativity promised by the creativity consensus. These compromises reproduced Web 2.0 in everyday practice.

The New Generation of Knowledge Management for the Web 2.0 Age

2010 ◽  
pp. 1211-1220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Currás ◽  
Moez Limayem
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Web

Today, due to spurred social (e.g. the “Millennials”) and technological (e.g. Broadband Internet, Mobile Technology, GPS1, Web 2.0), etc) changes, organizations are transformed in an economic environment that is more than ever competitive. In the context of the Social Organization in the Web 2.0 age, collaboration mediated by technology, social networking and virtual communities, culture of awareness and innovation have become new levers to put Collective Intelligence at the service of the organization. In such an organization, all employees can equally participate in creating, using and sharing information and knowledge. The “Individual”- knowledge worker, plays a central role in this case.

Millennials as Emerging Adults

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Risman
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Gender Revolution

This chapter begins by providing a historical context for the Millennial generation. Growing up is different in the 21st century than before; it takes much longer. Given how many years youth take to explore their identities before they emerge into adulthood with stable jobs and committed partners, the chapter reviews what we now about “emerging adulthood” as a stage of human development. The chapter also highlights a debate in social science as to whether Millennials are entitled narcissists or a new civically engaged generation that will re-energize America. The chapter concludes with an overview of another debate, whether Millennials are pushing the gender revolution forward or returning to more traditional beliefs.

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