Born Digital is based on extensive original research, including interviews with Digital Natives around the world. 

John Palfry 

• works for Berkman Center for Internet and Society where he is a faculty director
• chairs the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, made up of leading Internet service companies and nonprofit groups focused on children's safety.

Urs Gasser

• is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• he serves as the faculty director of the Research Center for Information Law
• he is a faculty fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

Listen to this short 7 minute book talk by John Palfry.

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John Palrey discusses  with Google employees his book, Born Digital.  

 "We have to have the courage to write this book for parents and teachers. ... The most good can come from parents and teachers. ... Ultimately, the thing we wanted to say with this book to parents and teachers, "Get in the game". In fact, let young people be your guides. Let them show you some of what's going on. And a remarkable number of young people were totally willing to show their parents or a teacher a MySpace page. Now, they wanted to show their friend's MySpace page, not their own."(  at 40 min 50 sec )

For teachers and parents, at 40 min 50 sec into  this video  John talks about the importance of teachers and parents guiding their students/children in this digital age. The link may take you directly to the indicated time. If not, then use the slider control and slide it two thirds of the way through the video.

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Berkman@10: Digital Natives

• John Palfrey and Urs Gassser explore some of the myths surrounding how young people use new technologies.

   

• Does it make sense to talk about a distinctive global culture of young people -- Digital Natives -- who have only known life in a digital age?

   

• This 45 minute video will share the discoveries of some of the research John and Urs collected from hundreds of interviews of students around the world.