Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

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. Young people's use of digital media may result in various innovations and unexpected outcomes, from the use of videogame 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 and developments online and elsewhere that empower young users to function as drivers of technological change, recognizing that these new technologies are embedded in larger social systems, school, family, friends. The chapters consider such topics as (un)equal access across economic, racial, and ethnic lines; media panics and social anxieties; policy and Internet protocols; media literacy; citizenship vs. consumption; creativity and collaboration; digital media and gender equity; shifting notions of temporality; and defining the public/private divide. Contributors Steve Anderson, Anne Balsamo, Justine Cassell, Meg Cramer, Robert A. Heverly, Paula K Hooper, Sonia Livingstone, Henry Lowood, Robert Samuels, Christian Sandvig, Ellen Seiter, Sarita Yardi 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 And Developments Online And Elsewhere That Empower Young Users To Function As Drivers Of Technological Change, Recognizing That These New Technologies Are Embedded In Larger Social Systems - School, Family, Friends.--jacket. 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. Edited By Tara Mcpherson. Includes Bibliographical References. 0......Page 1 1......Page 4 2......Page 27 3......Page 53 4......Page 76 5......Page 97 6......Page 119 7......Page 139 8......Page 161 9......Page 193 10......Page 213 11......Page 235