Generation Z
The Pew Research Center surveyed the various names for this cohort on Google Trends in 2019 and found that in the U.S. the term Generation Z was the most popular by far. Other proposed names for the generation include iGeneration, Gen Tech, Gen Wii, Homeland Generation, Net Gen, Digital Natives, Neo-Digital Natives,. Internet Generation, Post-Millennials, and Zoomers.
About Generation Z in brief
Generation Z, or Gen Z for short, are the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Most members of Generation Z are the children of Generation X and sometimes millennials. Other proposed names for the generation include iGeneration, Gen Tech, Gen Wii, Homeland Generation, Net Gen, Digital Natives, Neo-Digital Natives,. Internet Generation, Post-Millennials, and Zoomers. The Pew Research Center surveyed the various names for this cohort on Google Trends in 2019 and found that in the U.S. the term Generation Z was the most popular by far, so much so that the Merriam-Webster and Oxford dictionaries both have official entries for it. The term Zoomer is rising in popular usage, but was still not widely used enough to justify a dictionary entry as of January 2020. According to Dictionary. com’s Slang Dictionary, \”Zoomer\” is an informal term used to refer to members of Gen Z. The term is modeled on a 4chan meme dubbed a ‘zoomer’ and often used in an ironic, humorous, or mocking tone. The Irish Times defines Generation Z as people born between 1995 and 2010 and fitting their newer definition of a generational span with a maximum of 15 years of age. In Australia, Generation Z’s McCrindle Research Centre defines them as those born in the late 1990s and early 2000s and fitting a newer generational definition of 15-years-old and a maximum age of 21 years old. The study found that Generation Z is better at delaying gratification than their counterparts from the 1960s, despite concerns to the contrary.
But they have higher rates of allergies, are more prone to mental health problems, and are more likely to be sleep deprived, and may be facing declining cognitive abilities, especially among the cognitive elites. In the Anglosphere, they read books less than before, with implications for their attention span, their vocabulary, and thus their school grades. In Japan, the cohort is described as Neo- digital Natives and primarily communicate by text or voice, while neo-digital natives use video, video-telephony, and movies. This emphasizes the shift from PC to mobile and text to video among the neo- digital population. In Asia, educators typically seek out and nourish top students whereas in Western Europe and the United States, the emphasis is on low-performers. It is the first generation to have been born after the popularization of the Internet. The cohort is sometimes referred to as the Internet Generation as it is a step beyond the previous cohort described as Digital Native. They tend to live more slowly than their predecessors when they were their age. They have lower rates of teenage pregnancies, and they consume drugs and alcohol less often. They are more concerned about academic performance and job prospects. In the UK, the focus is on high-achieving students, whereas in the US, it is on the low-performing students. In Canada, they tend to be well-behaved, abstemious, and risk-averse.
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This page is based on the article Generation Z published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 14, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
