Research Catalog

Title

Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids living and learning with new media / Mizuko Ito ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Judd Antin ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Itō, Mizuko.

Description

xix, 419 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This study reports 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.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

• Learning > Social aspects
• Technology and youth > United States
• Mass media and youth > United States
• Digital media > Social aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-398) and index.

Contents

Media ecologies / Heather A. Horst, Becky Herr-Stephenson, and Laura Robinson -- Media ecologies : quantitative perspectives / Christo Sims -- Michelle / Lisa Tripp -- "You have another world to create" : teens and online hangouts / C.J. Pascoe -- The techne-mentor / Megan Finn -- Zalas, a digital-information virtuoso / Mizuko Ito -- Friendship / danah boyd -- Sharing snapshots of teen friendship and love / Katynka Z. Martínez -- From MySpace to Facebook : coming of age in networked public culture / Heather A. Horst -- Intimacy / C.J. Pascoe -- The public nature of mediated breakups / danah boyd -- Bob Anderson's story : "It was kind of a weird cyber growing-up thing" / Christo Sims -- Families / Heather A. Horst -- The Garcia family : a portrait of urban Los Angeles / Katnyka Z. Martínez -- The Miller family : a portrait of a Silicon Valley family / Heather A. Horst -- The Milvert family : a portrait of rural California / Christo Sims -- Gaming / Mizuko Ito and Matteo Bittanti -- Neopets : same game, different meanings / Laura Robinson and Heather A. Horst -- First-person play : subjectivity, gamer code, and Doom / Matteo Bittanti -- Learning and collaborating in Final Fantasy XI / Rachel Cody -- Machinima : from learners to producers / Matteo Bittanti -- Creative production / Patricia G. Lange and Mizuko Ito -- "MySpace is universal" : creative production in a trajectory of participation / Dan Perkel -- All in the family / Patricia G. Lange -- Making music together / Dilan Mahendran -- **Spoiler alert** : Harry Potter podcasting as collaborative production / Becky Herr-Stephenson -- Work / Mizuko Ito -- "I'm just a nerd. It's not like I'm a rock star or anything" / Mizuko Ito -- Technological prospecting in rural landscapes / Christo Sims -- Being more than "just a banker" : DIY youth culture and DIY capitalism in a high school computer club / Katynka Z. Martínez -- Final Fantasy XI : trouncing Tiamat / Rachel Cody -- Eddie : Neopets, neocapital, and making a virtual buck / Laura Robinson -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Project overview -- Appendix II. Project descriptions -- Appendix III. Project index.

Call Number

JFE 10-1823

ISBN

• 9780262013369
• 0262013363

LCCN

2009009932

OCLC

314840580

Title

Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids living and learning with new media / Mizuko Ito ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Judd Antin ... [et al.].

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.

Series

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

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

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-398) and index.

Added Author

Itō, Mizuko.

Research Call Number

JFE 10-1823