ABSTRACT
Analog technology provides multiple opportunities to demonstrate how nonhuman agents and human agents work together in unpredictable ways. Adults refer to youth not only as digital natives but by other titles: “Generation Z,” “the Homeland Generation,” and occasionally, but poignantly, “the Post 9/11 Generation”. The generation after millennials has been born with screens and Internet use as a fact of life, but if this is so, then we might ask how much they regularly embrace the meaning such an existence. The chapter discusses the term unplugged by connecting it to materiality, which acts as a positive force for consideration in popular culture, multimodal composing, pedagogy, and media studies. Topics like materiality and the scholarship associated with it must be ideally made translatable to the public as well as the members of the academy. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
