Here are some true 'digital natives' (Prensky 2001). But is this a Utopian world of democratic connectedness or just another social space to play out the same inequalities?
Does it present the lawless world portrayed in CyberPunk fiction like William Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic? It is all about creating your own reality or self. Just as the characters of Johnny Mnemonic are in control of their own physical reality the 'digital natives' of the Myspace and Facebook generation are able to spend hours of their lives in a world where their parents can not monitor them, where it is all about groups, friends and being cool. Where they can use widgets, applications, html, graphics and digitally enhanced images to create a profile of themselves which is not limited by their physical reality.
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