---
title: "Digital Natives: How today’s youth are different from their “digital immigrant” elders and what that means for libraries"
description: "This presentation covers the media and communications environment of today's teenagers and young adults and how that new environment has affected their expectations and behaviors about media, communication, and creation."
date: "2006-10-27"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2006/10/27/digital-natives-how-todays-youth-are-different-from-their-digital-immigrant-elders-and-what-that-means-for-libraries/"
categories:
  - "Emerging Technology"
  - "Leisure"
  - "Lifestyle"
  - "Teens & Tech"
  - "Teens & Youth"
tags:
  - "Families"
  - "Future of the Internet"
  - "Libraries"
  - "New Media Ecology"
  - "Teens"
---

# Digital Natives: How today’s youth are different from their “digital immigrant” elders and what that means for libraries

This presentation covers the media and communications environment of today's teenagers and young adults and how that new environment has affected their expectations and behaviors about media, communication, and creation.