CIL'06: Keynote: The Internet: Enhancing Work and Play

Lee Rainie...Pew Internet and American Life Project

• theloudlibrarian.net
• millennials...
• "Millennials Rising" book
• they are:
• special
• sheltered
• confident
• team-oriented
• achieving
• pressured
• conventional
• "trophy kids"
• tech-embracing
• "digital natives in the land of digital immigrants"
• immersed in a world of media and gadgets
• multi-taksers
• pay "continuous partial attention"
• unaware, uncaring of the results of use of their technology (eg. copywrite)...
• so MEDIA LITERACY big role for libs
• their technology world will change radically in the next decade
• approach to research / work will be shaped by new techno-world...
• tag taxonomies -- shared
• flickr
• individuals as nodes of production
  
• we need to be their "infomation support"...easy to use, there when needed
• we need to react to and shape their environment...
  
• be brilliant!