Notas metodológicas (a quem se dirige o trabalho)

«The term Net Generation refers to the generation of children who, in 1999, will be between the ages of two and twenty-two, not just those who are active on the Internet. Most of these children do not yet have access to the Net, but most have some of degree of fluency with the digital media. The vast majority of adolescents report they know how to use a computer. Nearly everyone has experience with video games. The net is coming into households as fast as television did in the 1950s» (Tapscott, 1997: 3) 

«Globally, most children of the new generation are not growing up digital. In fact many of them will not grow up at all. One billion people were born over the last lecade - the biggest increase in human history. However, 97 percent of them were born in developing countries that often lack the ability to feed, house, and educate them[Data from a presentation by Rick Uttle, president of the International Youth Foundation, cited at World Economic Forum. Davos. Switzerland. 1997]. More than half of the 1.2 billion children in the world aged six to eleven have never placed a phone call [As cited in a column entitled "2B1" by Nicolas Negropome in Wired, June 1997, p. 184].  There is also a growing gap between have and have-not nations. Most net users are in the United States, Europe (excepting Scandinavia) and Japan are far behind. But the real gap comes between the developed and developing world. Most people in the latter don't have telephones, let alone the digital media.» (Tapscott, 1997: 12)