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screenager
(1) From Douglas Rushkoff's 1997 book "Playing the Future," a screenager is a teenager who spends a lot of time at a computer screen. Screenager activities are sending e-mail and instant messages, downloading music and movies, gaming and Web surfing.

(2) A song from English rock band MUSE about teenagers who put up a screen between themselves and their family. The lyrics start out "Who's so phony and always surrounded? Stop your screaming, no one can hear."
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Douglas Rushkoff uses the phrase in his new edition of Playing the Future, published under the title of Screenagers (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006).
The future of consciousness by Strate, Lance / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
The importance of it is now clear at the beginning of the XXI century--a century of the new information society, of screenagers, and of computers as integral members of the domestic family.
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"I am becoming someone completely different ...": the utilisation of ... by van Zyl, Dorothea / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
 
 
 
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