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 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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Photo Credits: Ritchie Ly and Geert Allegaert.
Media Practices in Rural Landscapes
Project Staff: Christo Sims
The study, “Media Practices in Rural Landscapes” seeks accounts of how young people are using new media in rural communities. I am conducting home interviews with teens, ages 12-18, in a region of the Sierra-Nevada foothills just beyond the outskirts of the greater Sacramento metropolitan area.
Through home visits I am accumulating descriptions of how youth in this community are using digital media for sociality, play and creative production, as well as accounts of the home and neighborhood contexts in which these practices take place.
Fieldwork began in the summer of 2006 and is ongoing.
The first blog post from this work can be found here.
