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Danah Boy, Mitarbeiterin am Microsoft Research Lab und dem Berkman Center for Internet and Society, beschäftigt sich mit den sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen, die mit den neuen Medien einhergehen. Am Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technolgy hat Sie dazu einen interessanten Vortrag gehalten: ”

Living and Learning with Social Media

“Many American youth are embracing a wide array of social media as part of their everyday lives. From social network sites and texting to blogs and wikis, many youth are leveraging the power of social media to create, communicate, share, and learn. In this talk, I will use social network sites as a case study to examine critical shifts that are underway as a result of social media. I look at how inequality is perpetuated through these systems and the challenges that educators face when trying to incorporate these systems into the classroom. Finally, I conclude by discussing implications for educators.”

Bei Digital Youth Research finden sind in einem Whitepaper weitere Ergebnisse aus der Forschung.

Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-expression. We include here the findings of three years of research on kids’ informal learning with digital media.

Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (pdf)