Are the Youngsters Taking Over?: The Second Modernity and the Digital Generation

• Main Author: Pertierra, Raul
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: youth; millennials; agency; new media; identity; digital world; zeitgeist
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/socialtransformations/vol6/iss1/6; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/socialtransformations/article/1091/viewcontent/ST_206.1_206_20Article_20__20Pertierra.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We are currently entering a new cultural phase. While it is difficult to predict exactly its important features, a major component is the increasing youthification of culture. In an age of digital and limitless reproduction, the youth provide the most appropriate images for this cultural phase. What...