In the 1990’s Douglas Rushkoff, an American media theorist and writer, coined the phrase “screenagers” to describe the generation growing up immersed in digital media. This generation, for the first time, grew up thinking images on screens were not simply still pictures, but rather content that could be manipulated.

These ‘screenagers’ are digital natives, they navigate the digital forms innately unlike older generations who could be seen as  digital immigrants.

I decided to test this. We grew up with the Internet and computers and from mid way through primary school I can remember computers being omnipresent. However I can also remember a time without Internet (although we still had computers – I spent so much free time on that PC Pinball game). When I told my sister about my Internet-less childhood she couldn’t believe me. Although she is only 6 years younger, the technology gap is huge.