Sunday 20 October, 3.30pm until 4.45pm, Cinema 2 Generation Wars
Whether being hailed as agents of radical change or fretted over as potential victims of grooming and cyber-bullying, the first generation raised with the internet is a constant source of scrutiny. Does being constantly in the spotlight of social media – where nothing is truly ever deleted – fundamentally change the experience of growing up? As Kent’s now ex-youth police and crime commissioner Paris Brown discovered very publicly earlier this year, online indiscretions can have serious offline consequences. So are the supposed digital natives dangerously cavalier about matters of privacy and sharing or are they simply embracing the new realities of digital privacy in the age of Google Glass?
Has the digital age equipped youngsters for a brave new world of unheralded connectivity or left them floundering in an information overload? Is social networking a toxic influence that distracts young people from making real friends, or simply a tool that makes it easier to keep in touch? And is today’s generation gap defined by when you first surfed the information superhighway? Will life ever be the same again?
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Steven Bartlett
managing director, Wallpark Online |
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Andrew Keen
entrepreneur; founder, Audiocafe.com; author, Digital Vertigo: how today's online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us |
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Rob Killick
CEO, Clerkswell; author, The UK After The Recession |
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Victoria Mapplebeck
senior lecturer and multimedia director, Royal Holloway, University of London |
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Aaron Stead
economics student, University of Portsmouth; president, Debating Society; alumnus, Debating Matters Competition |
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Joel Cohen
communications manager, BeyondMe |
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Tony Dokoupil, Daily Beast, 9 July 2012
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Norman Lewis, spiked, 9 November 2009
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Alex Hochuli, Culture Wars, 3 July 2007
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