PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Danah Boyd is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Research Assistant Professor at New York University, and Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on how youth integrate technology into their everyday practices and other interactions between technology and society. She lives in New York City.
'The book took a decade to complete, and cites sociologists including Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman, but it's the voices of the 166 teenagers Boyd interviewed across America that make it a truly enlightening read.' (Jane Mulkerrins, The Sunday Telegraph) 'It's Complicated, a new book about teenagers and digital technology by the media scholar danah boyd, places today's smartphones, iPads and laptops in the context of this perennial power struggle between adolescents and parents. In doing so, it adds much to our understanding of a young generation of hyper-connected, hybrid consumer-producers - a cohort whose behaviour often unites parents, educators and investors in collective bewilderment.' (Gautam Malkani, The Financial Times) 'There are a lot of interesting observations here: that most teenagers aren't digital natives as we like to believe.' (Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer) 'It's Complicated champions a rich, complex idea of what youth is about, and views with horror the way adult discussions so often reduce the young to mute metrics.' (Simon Ings, New Scientist)
