The App Gerneration: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

By Howard Gardner and Katie Davis ’00. Yale University Press, 2013. An examination of the influence of digital media on today’s youth, the so named “The App Generation.” Gardner and Davis’s research explores what it means for this generation to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” as well as the differences in everyday life presented by living in the digital era.