First Digitals

First Digitals refers to the generation first adopting digital social interaction, and exploring its opportunities and limitations. Described in books such as [http://www.borndigitalbook.com Born Digital] and [http://www.amazon.com/Generation-Digital-Politics-Commerce-Childhood/dp/0262134780/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223196171&sr=1-2 Generation Digital] , the First Digitals are those born in the late-1970s until the late 1980s, who first experienced a high-school and then undergraduate education utilizing digital technologies, and nearly fully adopted social networking technologies such as MySpace and Facebook, inherently determining their trajectory and features due to their requests.

As this generation comes of age, its experience with newly possible community building, prosumership, economic production and collective action mobilization is already remaking human society. The Barak Obama campaign is a great example of this, as the campaign rides on the tides of newly minted First Digital voters and, more importantly, campaign volunteers.

While the generations that follow will certainly re-create the world--digital and physical--in their image, the First Digital Generation will remain as the turning point generation for human society in the Information Age.