Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected

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Title:

Author:

McPherson, Tara.

ISBN:

9780262633598

9780262134958

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Physical Description:

ix, 259 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Series:

The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on digital media and learning

Series Title:

The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on digital media and learning

Contents:

A rule set for the future / Tara McPherson -- Pt. I. Revisiting "old" media : learning from media histories -- Practicing at home : computers, pianos, and cultural capital / Ellen Seiter -- High tech or high risk : moral panics about girls online / Justine Cassell and Meg Cramer -- Wireless play and unexpected innovation / Christian Sandvig -- Pt. II. Exploring "new" media : case studies of digital youth -- Internet literacy : young people's negotiation of new online opportunities / Sonia Livingstone -- Looking BK and moving FD : toward a sociocultural lens on learning with programmable media / Paula K. Hooper -- Whispers in the classroom / Sarita Yardi -- Found technology : players as innovators in the making of machinima / Henry Lowood -- Pt. III. Delimiting some futures : issues and concerns -- Growing up digital : control and the pieces of a digital life / Robert A. Heverly.

Auto-modernity after postmodernism : autonomy and automation in culture, technology, and education / Robert Samuels -- A pedagogy for original systems / Steve Anderson and Anne Balsamo.

Abstract:

"Young people's use of digital media may result in various innovations and unexpected outcomes, from the use of video game technologies to create films to the effect of home digital media on family life. This volume examines the core issues that arise when digital media use results in unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters. The contributors examine the complex mix of emergent practices and developments online and elsewhere that empower young users to function as drivers of technological change, recognizing that these new technologies are embedded in larger social systems - school, family, friends."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Technology -- Social aspects.

Technological innovations.

Digital media.

Internet and teenagers.

Added Author:

McPherson, Tara.

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How emergent practices and developments in young people's digital media can result in technological innovation or lead to unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters.

Young people's use of digital media may result in various innovations and unexpected outcomes, from the use of videogame technologies to create films to the effect of home digital media on family life. This volume examines the core issues that arise when digital media use results in unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters. The contributors examine the complex mix of emergent practices and developments online and elsewhere that empower young users to function as drivers of technological change, recognizing that these new technologies are embedded in larger social systems, school, family, friends.

The chapters consider such topics as (un)equal access across economic, racial, and ethnic lines; media panics and social anxieties; policy and Internet protocols; media literacy; citizenship vs. consumption; creativity and collaboration; digital media and gender equity; shifting notions of temporality; and defining the public/private divide.

Contributors
Steve Anderson, Anne Balsamo, Justine Cassell, Meg Cramer, Robert A. Heverly, Paula K Hooper, Sonia Livingstone, Henry Lowood, Robert Samuels, Christian Sandvig, Ellen Seiter, Sarita Yardi