Digital Technologies and Generational Identity- Front Cover -- Digital Technologies and Generational Identity -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of editors -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Social generations from the life course perspective -- The shaping of generational identity in families and consumption -- Technologies in later life stages -- The structure of the book -- Note -- References -- PART I: Historical, theoretical and methodological perspectives -- Chapter 2: The place of age in the digital revolution -- Introduction -- The new ageing: a conceptual framework -- Technological generations, new eras and second modernity -- Technological eras, generational divisions and age divides -- Technological frames for the third age and the fourth age -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Generational analysis as a methodological approach to study mediatised social change -- Introduction -- Generation theory and time -- Analytical approach -- Empirical approach -- Conclusions: generation theory and social change -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Generational analysis of people's experience of ICTs -- Introduction -- The origins of generation and cohort analysis -- Contemporary generational analysis -- Challenges for generation and cohort analysis -- Generations and ICTs -- A case study -- The relevance of ICTs and the timing of their appearance in relation to life stage -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Family generations and ICT -- Chapter 5: Mobile life of middle-aged employees: fragmented time and softer schedules -- Technology and time-space compression: always online? -- Accelerating pace of life and ICT-facilitated time strategies -- Data and method -- Feeling hurried: example of the Eklund family