Born Digital

For materials that originated in digital form, see Born-digital.
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Author John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
Subject Sociology
Publisher Basic Books
Publication date
 2008
Pages 375
ISBN ISBN 978-0-465-00515-4
OCLC 176895002
302.23/10835 22
LC Class HM851 .P34 2008

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives is a book by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser exploring the consequences of the wide availability of internet connectivity to the first generation of people born to it, whom Palfrey and Gasser refer to as "digital natives". Issues addressed include shifts in the concept of identity, privacy, content creation, activism, and music piracy.

Born Digital has been called "a landmark sociological study of today's early adults."[1] Born Digital was also reviewed in Science[2] and the Washington Post.[3] Library Journal named Born Digital one of its top Science and Technology books for 2008, the only computer science book named to the prestigious list.[4][5] Two reviews in the British press (The Guardian and the Independent) have also compared the book with Nicholas Carr's The Shallows.[6][7]

The book has also been criticized for its use of the term "digital natives," among other things.[8]

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  1. ↑ Project Information Literacy at the University of Washington Retrieved 2009-09-09.
  2. ↑ Science 17 April 2009: Vol. 324. no. 5925, p. 338, doi:10.1126/science.117181
  3. ↑ "An Optimized View," Amanda Henry, Washington Post, October 9, 2008 Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  4. ↑ Article relating the Library Journal mention in its top science and technology books of 2008 Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  5. ↑ "Best Sci-Tech Books of 2009," Library Journal, March 1, 2009 Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  6. ↑ Stephen Poole on two opposing views of the impact of the digital age, The Guardian, 11 September 2010 Retrieved 2010-09-24.
  7. ↑ Born Digital, By John Palfrey & Urs Gasser; The Shallows, By Nicholas Carr, Independent, reviewed by Pat Kane, 24 September 2010 Retrieved 2010-09-24.
  8. ↑ A book review by a librarian noting the criticisms of Born Digital and use of the term "digital native" Retrieved 2010-09-09.