No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply—some would say totally—involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.

Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination. On the other hand, the benefits of apps are equally striking: they can promote a strong sense of identity, allow deep relationships, and stimulate creativity. The challenge is to venture beyond the ways that apps are designed to be used, Gardner and Davis conclude, and they suggest how the power of apps can be a springboard to greater creativity and higher aspirations.

霍華德·加德納（Howard Gardner），當今世界最有影響力的發展心理學傢和教育學傢之一，多元智能理論創始人，被譽為“多元智能理論之父”、“推動美國教育改革的首席科學傢”。哈佛大學教育研究生院認知心理學、教育學教授，同時兼任哈佛大學心理學教授，波士頓大學醫學院神經學教授，“零點項目”的主持人之一。齣版的二十多部專著被翻譯成二十多種文字。在中國的教育界，加德納已經成為傢喻戶曉的大師。

凱蒂·戴維斯（Katie Davis）是華盛頓大學信息學院的助理教授，研究數字媒體技術對青少年學業、社交和道德生活的影響。

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