Digital Generation is Losing Its Heritage

I was sent this recently:

The generation of young people who were born into the digital era may be more connected to each other, but less connected to their cultural heritage, warns sociologist Jos de Haan of Erasmus University Rotterdam. They are “chatting” more but reading less; playing more, but researching and learning less than preceding generations.

Though adept at finding their way around the virtual world, digital-era youth are not finding their way to institutions that connect them with the cultural riches of their past, according to de Haan.

The Internet is perceived as a rival to traditional culture, but it could become an ally: De Haan challenges museums, libraries, archives, and other institutions to do more to connect with the digital generation than merely digitize their collections.

SOURCE: Erasmus University Rotterdam, http://www.eur.nl/english/pressroom/detail/article/2177/

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