Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age

Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, Linda Woodhead MBE

ISBN 10: 022679153X / ISBN 13: 9780226791531

Published by University of Chicago Press 02/v /15 N, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press 02/v /15 N
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022679153X
• ISBN 13: 9780226791531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world.

Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the first generation never to know the world without the internet, and the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them? And what can we learn from them? Gen Z, Explained is the authoritative portrait of this significant generation. It draws on extensive interviews that display this generation’s candor, surveys that explore their views and attitudes, and a vast database of their astonishingly inventive lexicon to build a comprehensive picture of their values, daily lives, and outlook. Gen Z emerges here as an extraordinarily thoughtful, promising, and perceptive generation that is sounding a warning to their elders about the world around them—a warning of a complexity and depth the “OK Boomer” phenomenon can only suggest.
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Much of the existing literature about Gen Z has been highly judgmental. In contrast, this book provides a deep and nuanced understanding of a generation facing a future of enormous challenges, from climate change to civil unrest. What’s more, they are facing this future head-on, relying on themselves and their peers to work collaboratively to solve these problems. As Gen Z, Explained shows, this group of young people is as compassionate and imaginative as any that has come before, and understanding the way they tackle problems may enable us to envision new kinds of solutions. This portrait of Gen Z is ultimately an optimistic one, suggesting they have something to teach all of us about how to live and thrive in this digital world.
 

About the Authors

Roberta Katz is an anthropologist at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. 
 

Sarah Ogilvie is a linguist at the University of Oxford. 

Jane Shaw is a historian at the University of Oxford. 

Linda Woodhead is a sociologist at Lancaster University.