Tag Archives: youth

Interview with Annelie Grob: New Media at the Children’s Book Museum

Maarten Jansen | 31 October 2011, 11:59 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,


In The Hague there is the Dutch Children’s Books Museum (Kinderboekenmuseum). On the 8th of December 2010 was the opening of the new exhibition called Papiria. Within the new exhibition children with the age of three trough thirteen, learn about the way stories are written, what is important for telling a scary story or a love story. They discover…

Book review:Taking Care of Youth and the Generations by Bernard Stiegler

Mzia Kupunia | 20 September 2011, 1:02 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Marketing technologies pose great threat to the future generations – this is the main thesis of French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler’s book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. In a work published in English language in 2010, Stiegler begins with discussing the issue of lack of responsibility among the adults in the contemporary society. He reviews a then…

The Social Paradox of Social Network Sites

Harro Heijboer | 30 September 2009, 5:51 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

When I was young, although with 26 years of age I’m not old, so let’s say; when I was younger, most of the time when I wasn’t in school I was playing with my friends on the streets. Playing street football (soccer for our American friends), organizing all kind of crazy clubs, building tree houses in the woods behind my…