Change and Generation

Abstract

The idea that we can speak about baby boomers, Generation X and the millennials (Gen Y) or even ‘Generation Next’ when explaining things like social change or new kinds of politics has become a very popular and seductive cliché. Some of this discussion and commentary asserts, for example, that young people now form digital communities using information and communication technologies in ways that promise to revive the public sphere and democracy or that nurture new forms of youth citizenship (Dalhgren 2013, Vesnic-Alujevic 2012, White 2013, pp. 216–246).