Summarizes findings from a three-year study of how new media have been integrated into youth behaviors and have changed the dynamics of media literacy, learning, and authoritative knowledge. Outlines implications for educators, parents, and policy makers

Becky Herr-Stephenson

C. J. Pascoe

danah boyd

Heather Horst

Laura Robinson

Matteo Bittanti

Mizuko Ito

Patricia G. Lange

English

Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-expression. This white paper summarizes the results of a three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, examining young people’s participation in the new media ecology. It represents a condensed version of a longer treatment of the project findings.i The study was motivated by two primary research questions: How are new media being integrated into youth practices and agendas? How do these practices change the dynamics of youth-adult negotiations over literacy, learning, and authoritative knowledge

Ito, Mizuko

Horst, Heather (R20039)

Bittanti, Matteo

boyd, danah

Herr-Stephenson, Becky

Lange, Patricia G.

Pascoe, C. J.

Robinson, Lauara

Western Sydney ResearchDirect

Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project

Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-expression. This white paper summarizes the results of a three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, examining young people’s participation in the new media ecology. It represents a condensed version of a longer treatment of the project findings. The study was motivated by two primary research questions: How are new media being integrated into youth practices and agendas? How do these practices change the dynamics of youth-adult negotiations over literacy, learning, and authoritative knowledge

Horst, Heather A.

Boyd, Danah

Robinson, Laura

Scholar Commons - Santa Clara University

Living and Learning
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Summary of Findings from the
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Living and Learning With New Media: Summary of Findings From the Digital Youth Project

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