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How cultural is the digital generation?

Author(s)	Marjon Schols, Marion Duimel, Jos de Haan
Publication date	04 March 2011
Keywords
Price	€
Number of pages
ISBN/ISSN/other	978 90 377 0457 0
Series	Publication
Number	2011-8
Research group	Time, Media and Culture

Original title: Hoe cultureel is de digitale generatie?

Many young people in the Netherlands today have grown up surrounded by new media. Almost all of them are now also online. The Internet is part of everyday life for today's teenagers, who use it among other things to search for information, chat with friends and maintain pages on social networking sites.
This report describes the use of the Internet by Dutch teenagers for cultural purposes: to what extent do they use the Internet to search for cultural information? Do they use the Internet to communicate about culture, and if so how often? And to what extent do they post text, images or sound information about cultural activities on the Internet themselves? The report also explores how far differences in online cultural participation can be ascribed to the digital skills of teenagers, their interest in culture and that of their parents and friends, as well as the attention devoted to culture and ICT at school.