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Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected
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Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected

Author: Tara McPherson
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series: John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on digital media and learning.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008
(OCoLC)608485264
Online version:
Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008
(OCoLC)609174901
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Tara McPherson
ISBN: 9780262134958 0262134950 9780262633598 0262633590
OCLC Number: 156994497
Description: ix, 259 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: A rule set for the future / Tara McPherson --
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 --
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 --
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 synners / Steve Anderson and Anne Balsamo.
Series Title: John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on digital media and learning.
Responsibility: edited by Tara McPherson.
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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.Read the  Read more...

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