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(2014) Democracy bytes, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The idea of generation is open to many interpretations and uses. Some writers use it to explain why societies remain resistant to change, such as when anthropologists argue that generations are the glue that bind aboriginal societies in time, "connecting speaker and listener in communal experience and uniting past and present in memory" (Hulan and Eigenbrod 2008, p. 7). Others use the idea of generation to explain why dramatic change occurs. Jones, for example, argued that the baby-boom generation was "history's decisive generation" responsible for most of the important changes in America since the 1960s (1980).
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Bessant, J. (2014). Coming of age in a digital neoliberal world: generation and politics, in Democracy bytes, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-135.
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