{"product_id":"9781517911140-the-digital-is-kid-stuff","title":"The Digital Is Kid Stuff","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaking Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The children are our future” goes the adage, a proclamation that simultaneously declares both anxiety as well as hope about youth as the next generation. In \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Is Kid Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e, Josef Nguyen interrogates this ambivalence within discussions about today’s “digital generation” and the future of creativity, an ambivalence that toggles between the techno-pessimism that warns against the harm to children of too much screen time  and a techno-utopianism that foresees these “digital natives” leading the way to innovation, economic growth, increased democratization, and national prosperity.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNguyen engages cultural histories of childhood, youth, and creativity through chapters that are each anchored to a particular digital media object or practice. Nguyen narrates the developmental arc of a future creative laborer: from a young kid playing the island fictions of \u003ci\u003eMinecraft\u003c\/i\u003e, to an older child learning do-it-yourself skills while reading \u003ci\u003eMake\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, to a teenager posting selfies on Instagram, to a young adult creative laborer imagining technological innovations using design fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the constructions and valorizations of creativity, entrepreneurialism, and technological savvy, Nguyen argues that contemporary culture operates to assuage profound anxieties about-and to defuse valid critiques of-both emerging digital technologies and the precarity of employment for “creative laborers” in twenty-first-century neoliberal America. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449876525430,"sku":"9781517911140","price":20.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38976969_a5061451-25bc-4d01-9ecf-c39db5e50ecc.jpg?v=1765420210","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781517911140-the-digital-is-kid-stuff","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}