Generation Z in a Digitally Native World: Culture, Activism, and Identity - Softcover

9798337383880: Generation Z in a Digitally Native World: Culture, Activism, and Identity

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798337383880

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2026

Generation Z has emerged as a disruptive force, reshaping global politics, culture, activism, identity, and education through their deep digital fluency. Leveraging tools like social media, livestreams, memes, and even large language models, they challenge traditional political structures and elite dominance through digital activism and leaderless movements, often sparking intergenerational tension. For Gen Z, online platforms function as new public spheres, spaces of political deliberation, collective identity, and personal autonomy that evade traditional state oversight. Their approach to education, work, and selfhood increasingly pushes institutions to rethink authority, pedagogy, identity, and belonging in the digital era. Generation Z in a Digitally Native World: Culture, Activism, and Identity critically explores how Generation Z negotiates digitality, activism, and belonging. This book presents interdisciplinary perspectives from education, cultural studies, media, and sociology to examine how digital nativity redefines learning, political participation, and identity formation in the 21st century. Covering topics such as short-form videos, hyperconnectivity, and generational psychology, this book is an excellent academic resource for graduate and doctoral students, researchers, and practitioners interested in youth cultures, digital technologies, political science.

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About the Authors

Saad Boulahnane , Ph.D. is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies and Acting Head of the Department of Languages and Arts at Hassan I University, Settat, Morocco, where he previously served as the coordinator of Transversal Skills and Foreign Languages. A Fulbright Alumnus (Colorado State University, 2014–2015) and Visiting Scholar at Kennesaw State University, USA (2024), he holds a doctorate in Critical Discourse Analysis. His research spans CDA, postcolonial studies, borderscapes, and intercultural studies. He has authored over 25 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in Scopus and Web of Science indexed journals and edited four scholarly volumes, including Identity and the Dynamics of Border Crossing (IGI Global, 2025, Scopus-indexed). He holds a signed Peter Lang contract for a forthcoming co-edited volume on borders and digital sovereignty. He teaches Visual Media, Framing Borderscapes, and Media Literacy and Cultural Critique at graduate level.

Mohammed Hirchi teaches French and Arabic literature and culture at Colorado State University. He holds a PhD from Indiana University and an MBA from Colorado State. His publications include articles on literature and cinema in journals such as the French Review, International Journal of Francophone Studies, �tudes Francophones, Journal of North African Studies, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video and a book on the rewriting of history in Francophone literature (2017). He benefited from a Fulbright grant for research in Jordan and Morocco on “The Reconfiguration of Metropolitan Space in Cinema.”

Hanane Allioui is Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences, Kenitra, and Professor at ESCA �cole de Management. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and specializes in AI and decision-support systems. Her research focuses on the application of AI and data-driven approaches in education, finance, management, sustainability, legal technologies, and Industry 4.0/5.0, exploring how intelligent technologies can improve decision-making, organizational resilience, learning analytics, and governance in emerging contexts. Actively engaged in interdisciplinary research combining AI with law, management, and socio-economic development, she also contributes to international journal reviewing. She teaches programming, data analysis, AI, statistics, and information systems, with a strong commitment to preparing students for digital transformation.

Oumaima Mousaid is a Doctoral Researcher at the CREDIF Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, focusing on gender narratives and identity in Moroccan cinema. She currently serves as an English Lecturer at the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez and a Professor at USMBA, where she teaches Communication and Cultural Studies. A TESOL-certified educator with a Master’s in Language, Communication, and Society, her work bridges the gap between linguistics and cinematic critique. Beyond academia, she is a polyglot and an advocate for animal welfare with the Animal Soul Saver non-profit organization.

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