Danah Boyd

Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.

The Social Lives of Networked Teens

It's Complicated

Henry Jenkins

Mizuko Ito

In the last two decades the conception and practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation. Jenkins, Ito and boyd examine the ways in which our personal and professional lives are shaped by experiences interacting with and around emerging media. Stressing the social and cultural contexts of participation, the authors describe the process of diversification and mainstreaming that has transformed participatory culture. They advocate a move beyond individualized personal expression, and argue for an ethos of 'doing it together' in addition to 'doing it yourself' Participatory Culture in a Networked Era will interest students and scholars of digital media and their impact on society. It will engage readers in a broader dialogue and conversation about their own participatory practices in this digital age.

A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

Participatory Culture in a Networked Era

Matteo Bittanti

Sonja Baumer

Rachel Cody

The tenth-anniversary edition of a foundational text in digital media and learning, examining new media practices that range from podcasting to online romantic breakups. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, first published in 2009, has become a foundational text in the field of digital media and learning. Reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people live and learn with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces—it presents a flexible and useful framework for understanding the ways that young people engage with and through online platforms: hanging out, messing around, and geeking out, otherwise known as HOMAGO. Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out combines in-depth descriptions of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis. Since its original publication, digital learning labs in libraries and museums around the country have been designed around the HOMAGO mode and educators have created HOMAGO guidebooks and toolkits. This tenth-anniversary edition features a new introduction by Mizuko Ito and Heather Horst that discusses how digital youth culture evolved in the intervening decade, and looks at how HOMAGO has been put into practice. This book was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.

Kids Living and Learning with New Media

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Für Jugendliche sind Onlineplattformen wie Facebook, Twitter oder YouTube zu völlig normalen Bestandteilen ihres Alltags geworden. Doch welche Auswirkungen haben diese Netzwerke auf ihr Leben und wie beeinflussen sie ihr Handeln und Denken? Für ihr Buch hat Danah Boyd über mehrere Jahre hinweg unzählige Jugendliche mit unterschiedlichstem sozialem und ethnischem Background zu ihren Onlinetätigkeiten befragt und diese untersucht. Dabei deckt sie einige der typischen Vorurteile und Mythen über den Gebrauch sozialer Netzwerke bei jungen Leuten auf und macht deutlich, dass der Versuch von Eltern und Gesellschaft, Jugendliche vor den Gefahren des Internets schützen zu wollen, nicht immer sinnvoll ist. Ein spannendes, verständlich geschriebenes Buch, welches das Phänomen und die Faszination der Onlinenetzwerke auf Jugendliche erklärt.

Das Leben der Teenager in sozialen Netzwerken

Es ist kompliziert

An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youths' social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting 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. Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.

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