LIVING AND LEARNING WITH NEW MEDIA

This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur F oundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings-at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Ou t (MIT Press, 2009). The authors present empirical data on new media in the lives of American youth in order to reflect upon the rel ationshi...[Read more]