"... adults fail to recognize or appreciate the ways in which youth use technology to connect with others, learn and participate in public life." (Boyd, p. 32)
I see promise in how technology provides openings for young people to shape society and culture despite their lack of economic and institutional power and resources." (Ito, p. 36)
"... young people have almost always been the early adopters of new communication practices and have often had to defend ... against adult attempts at regulation and intrusion." (Jenkins, p. 40)
"... teens have developed sophisticated techniques for being private in public. They use song lyrics, pronouns, and in-jokes to have conversations that can technically be accessed but whose meaning is rendered invisible." (Boyd, p. 45)
(The dichotomy of digital native/immigrant) "assumes a world where the realms of children/youth and adults are absolutely separate, rather than one where they interact with each other in a networked culture ..." (Jenkins, p. 50)