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.
We include here the findings of three years of
research on kids' informal learning with digital media. The two page summary
incorporates a short, accessible version of our findings. The White Paper is a
30-page document prepared for the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and
Learning Series. The book is an online version of our forthcoming book with MIT
Press and incorporates the insights from 800 youth and young adults and over
5000 hours of online observations.
Summary - Summary of Findings: Two page summary (pdf)
White Paper - Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings
from the Digital Youth Project (pdf)
Source : Report, http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report
About Digital Youth
"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An
Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a
three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern
California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project
explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Read more
See also PUBLICATIONS
AND PAPERS
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/publications
On this blog:
“The rise of the video republic and young people”
New communication trends for young early adopters
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