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Today’s generation of young adults and teenagers have grown up with the Internet and digital technologies. These “Digital Natives” are changing the world irrevocably in how they relate to information, media, entertainment, politics, and culture. Their ways of learning about and experiencing the world are fundamentally different from the previous generation. These Digital Natives face a rapidly changing social landscape where unprecedented amounts of information will be stored about them throughout their lifetimes. Likewise, they have access to staggering amounts of information – and the growth rates of both phenomena are rapidly increasing. Born Digital examines the social and technological forces surrounding the Internet and its effects on the social, educational, psychological, and professional development of Digital Natives and the world at large.

John Palfrey is the Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and the Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School. He is also the author of Access Denied. Urs Gasser teaches at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, where he is the director of the Research Center for Information Law as well as an Associate Professor of law. He is also the author or editor of six books and over 60 articles.

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