The App Generation, written by Katie Davis and Howard Gardner, examines how today's youth is influenced by technology and how they navigate these new mediums. The book talks about how youth especially uses technology in the areas of identity, intimacy and imagination. The book proved to be an incredible resource for this documentary because it told the story of different research focus groups and young people who provide the positives and negatives to a ever innovating culture.

In the documentary Emily Weinstein, a contributing author, discusses her experience with the research conducted and what she took away from her findings. A scenario she discussed that was not shown in the film was that a student explained to her that a couple of friends went to the restaurant to get together and instead of keeping their phones in their pockets, they made a pile of the phones on the table and agreed not to check their phones while they were together.

Emily continued in speaking that she found this to be a great example of what she found from her research. A main point that was discussed in the book was that today's youth may be more connected than any young group ever before, but more and more of them are creating practices to balance communication and face to face interaction. On top of this example, there are multiple contributing authors and researchers who helped speak with a younger generation who are going to be some of the first ot really grow up with these technologies. For both a great resource and great read, it is much recommended. The App Generation is sold both in stores and also online on Amazon.