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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media

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An examination of young people's everyday new media practices-including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today...

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Main Author: Ito, Mizuko (auth)
Other Authors: Baumer, Sonja (auth), Bittanti, Matteo (auth), boyd, danah (auth), Cody, Rachel (auth), Stephenson, Becky Herr (auth), Horst, Heather A. (auth), Lange, Patricia G. (auth), Mahendran, Dilan (auth), Martínez, Katynka Z. (auth), Pascoe, C. J. (auth), Perkel, Dan (auth), Robinson, Laura (auth), Sims, Christo (auth), Tripp, Lisa (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2010
Series:The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
Subjects:
Impact of science & technology on society
Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)
social media
youth media
children's media
podcast
video-games
videogame
text message
ethnography
Digital Youth Project
media literacymedia ecology
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Summary:An examination of young people's everyday new media practices-including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youths' social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings-at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces. Integrating twenty-three case studies-which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups-in a unique collaborative authorship style,Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (440 p.)
ISBN:mitpress/8402.001.0001
9780262258920
9780262013369
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/8402.001.0001
Access:Open Access

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