Digital library aims to expand kids' media literacy
Digital library aims to expand kids' media literacy
- October 10, 2011
- Research by Mizuko “Mimi” Ito, anthropology and informatics professor and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, is featured in USA Today October 10, 2011
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From USA Today:
YOUmedia owes much of its basic ideology to Mizuko Ito, a cultural anthropologist
at the University of California, Irvine who in 2006 studied how teens use "new media."
After three years, her team concluded that most kids shift between three stages of
consumption and creation, informally dubbed "hanging out," "messing around" and "geeking
out." In the first stage, teens are mostly text-messaging or instant-messaging friends
and haunting sites such as Facebook - what the researchers call a "lightweight means"
of maintaining friendships. "Messing around" begins when teens take an interest in
media itself: composing music, editing photos or shooting video, driven more by interests
than a desire to be with friends.
For the full story, please visit http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-10-09/chicago-teens-bu....
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