Millennial digital entanglement: the complexities of millennial digital adulthood

This article examines how digital technologies become deeply entangled in the adult lives of the millennial generation. Drawing on a qualitative methodology that involved 20 interviews with Mexican millennials born between 1981 and 1995 and residing in Mexico City, the study introduces the notion of millennial digital entanglement to describe the complex, enduring and multifaceted integration of digital platforms and practices into their experiences of adulthood. This framework underscores the centrality of digital media in shaping how millennials navigate an adulthood characterized by delayed family formation, economic precarity, and shifting ideals of success and independence. Accordingly, the findings suggest that this millennial digital entanglement is interwoven with sociocultural models of adulthood, neoliberal labor markets, and new modes of self-representation. In doing so, this article contributes to contemporary debates on generational experience and digital culture.