Eugène Loos, Leslie Haddon and Enid Mante-Meijer (eds.) (2012). Generational Use of New Media. Farnham: Ashgate, 236 pp. ISBN 978 1 4094 2657 8 (hardback)

摘要

The book Generational Use of New Media gives a good overview of a range ofperspectives for studying new media use by different generations. Thediversity of perspectives is a result not only of the multidisciplinarity of thepresented research but also of the different types of links between the maintopic and the specific research questions: generational use of new mediais treated as a starting point for investigations of one generation’s use, asa basis for exploring different generations’ perceptions and experienceswith the same media, and as a concept to be critically examined, either interms of its accompanying assumptions or its analytical value. The book isdivided into three parts, bringing together studies focusing on youngerpeople’s use, older people’s use, and research that takes a comparativeapproach.