About Digital Youth
"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Read more
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The Practices of MySpace Profile Production
The Practices of MySpace Profile Production investigated how young people created MySpace pages, concentrating upon the sociotechnical practices and infrastructure of profile making, including getting started with the help of friends, finding visual and audio material online, and copying and pasting snippets of code. The project revealed how a MySpace profile is produced through the socially and technically distributed activity of many people and is intimately tied to the specific, local communities that the profile owner inhabits.