Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) Review

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(More customer reviews)Teens use technology in ways that I don't really understand. Massive amounts of SMSing (which this book argues have replaced the elaborately folded classroom-passed note), and things like that. TV use online allows light "comments" and a sense of community while doing something as isolationsist as watching T.V. And search abilities make it possible to talk about something after the fact, and have a friend go find the show later.
This book is an interesting view into this world.... a bit dry but pretty interesting so I was able to keep reading.
The first chapter is online free from the publisher here: [...]

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An examination of young people's everyday new media practices--includingvideo-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social mediause.

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