Génération exhibition
Overview:
In a few clicks, they can connect girls, make new friends in Sydney or Bamako, become a videographer or photographer, show their buttocks to a virtual friend in Berlin, meet anorexics, put their music online hoping to become famous... Welcome to the new "teen planet", where, it seems, we are more comfortable in the digital jungle than in real life. Ready to do anything to become celebrities via the Net, like the "Suicide girls", young adults posing naked on the Web who have become real idols for young girls, teenagers chat, download and publish their content at a hundred per hour: a set of techniques and knowledge that their parents often master very badly. To better understand this silent revolution underway among teenagers, for whom the Web has become the symbol of a new way of life and a tool for self-promotion, Stéphanie Kaim went to meet some young cybernauts.
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