Citations:iGen

English citations of iGen

Proper noun: "short for iGeneration, alternative name for Generation Z"

• 2017 September 17, Annalisa Quinn, “Move Over Millennials, Here Comes 'iGen' ... Or Maybe Not”, in npr‎^[1]:

  Coming to shoulder the burden is a generation the psychologist Jean Twenge calls "iGen" — like iPhones, but people. […] Ah well. Homer wrote: "As the generations of leaves, so are the generations of men." Teenagers will keep duckfacing, noodz will be shared, Twenge will collect consulting fees, academics will keep publishing careful rebuttals of her research that no one reads, and the world will probably keep on turning. Don't worry, iGen: There's always someone next.

• 2017 September, Jean M. Twenge, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

  The more I pored over yearly surveys of teen attitudes and behaviors, and the more I talked with young people like Athena, the clearer it became that theirs is a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. I call them iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, members of this generation are growing up with smartphones, have an Instagram account before they start high school, and do not remember a time before the internet.