{"id":147588,"date":"2023-04-28T02:55:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=147588"},"modified":"2023-04-28T02:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:55:58","slug":"gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=147588","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v45\/n04\/joe-moran\/gen-z-and-me\">Joe Moran writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Post-millennials can quickly convey their pleasure or displeasure through memes. They use emojis as a \u2018social lubricant\u2019 and bracket words with asterisks and tildes for emphasis and irony. Whether they write \u2018k\u2019 or \u2018kk\u2019 to mean \u2018OK\u2019 is charged with meaning. The first is curt; the second is cheerful and casual, a way to temper the brusqueness of the single letter. These tonal shadings matter because post-millennials like to state their intentions clearly. Self-labelling, especially of fine-grained sexual and gendered identities, has become an \u2018imperative\u2019. They think it important to be themselves, to admit their struggles and vulnerabilities, to say what they mean. In the iGen Corpus, a digital data bank compiled by Ogilvie of seventy million words used by post-millennials, terms such as real, true, honest and fake occur far more often than in general language use.<\/p>\n<p>According to Katz et al, in a world where so many things compete for their attention, the students they interview worry about allocating their time efficiently. They dislike email, finding it laborious compared to texting and messaging. \u2018If it\u2019s a professor you don\u2019t have a close relationship with, you have to say, hi professor whatever, I\u2019m in your class or I\u2019m interested in this blah blah blah,\u2019 one student says. \u2018You have to kind of frame it.\u2019 Several of the students surveyed watch recorded lectures at triple speed \u2013 not just to save time, but to help them concentrate. And yet nearly all the students interviewed for the book say that their favourite mode of communication is \u2018in person\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Moran writes: Post-millennials can quickly convey their pleasure or displeasure through memes. They use emojis as a \u2018social lubricant\u2019 and bracket words with asterisks and tildes for emphasis and irony. Whether they write \u2018k\u2019 or \u2018kk\u2019 to mean \u2018OK\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=147588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42947],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147589,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147588\/revisions\/147589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}