Julien Bayou

cafebabel.com, ten years of generational citizen media...but of which generation?

Call us 'precarious', sling that 'hyper-connected' stick at us. Oh yes did we mentioned we are 'facebook addicts'? After Generation X, we're 'Generation Y', but we don't know WHY. The one thing we know is that it is 'our generation', though it seems our parent's generation know us better than we know ourselves. Theirs was a heady mix of communism, addictions, and more face-to-face interaction. Just look at the cinema marking our generation, which hasn't fully tried to depict an era of erasmus, facebook, budget flights or lifelong internships. Whilst one notable French activist-cum-politician rues the lack of a new generation with a voice, we try to go looking for what the current generation is about

• Read the special edition cafebabel.com, ten years of generational citizen media...but of which generation?
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