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This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year
ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings --
at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed
version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and
Geeking Out (MIT Press, 2009). The authors present empirical data on new media in
the lives of American youth in order to reflect upon the relationship between new
media and learning. In one of the largest qualitative and ethnographic studies of
American youth culture, the authors view the relationship of youth and new media not
simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the broader structural
conditions of childhood and the negotiations with adults that frame the experience
of youth in the United States.The book that this report summarizes was written as a
collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research
effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at
the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern
California.John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Reports on Digital Media and
Learning
