Generation “C” – the connected, creative community members

Another name for a “new” generation – this time it’s all about “C”

Gen C is a generation of people defined not by age but by activity. The story of how I heard of it has involved two appropriate C-words already: Community; Connectedness.

There are more:

• Creativity
• Content
• Control
• Complexity

Gen C make their own content. Gen C form strong communities, and care about communication. They want to be connected. Gen C take on broadcast media on their own terms: They get involved, and are happy to make their own celebrities. Gen C control their own lives; they’re happy with complexity and continuous partial attention. Gen C work and live creativity: they work in creative industries, don’t look down on making and crafting, and want to adapt mass market products in acts of co-creation.

The article at Schulze & Webb (Pulse Laser) goes on about the empowerment, expectations and responses linked to this thought…
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