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

Series Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Notes on the Text......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 22
1 - MEDIA ECOLOGIES......Page 50
Box 1.1 - Media Ecologies: Quantitative Perspectives......Page 53
Box 1.2 - Michelle......Page 63
Box 1.3 - “You Have Another World to Create”: Teens and Online Hangouts......Page 71
Box 1.4 - The Techne-Mentor......Page 80
Box 1.5 - zalas, a Digital-Information Virtuoso......Page 88
2 - FRIENDSHIP......Page 100
Box 2.1 - Sharing Snapshots of Teen Friendship and Love Katynka Z. Martínez......Page 106
Box 2.2 - From MySpace to Facebook: Coming of Age in Networked Public Culture......Page 113
3 - INTIMACY......Page 138
Box 3.1 - The Public Nature of Mediated Breakups......Page 154
Box 3.2 - Bob Anderson’s Story: “It Was Kind of a Weird Cyber Growing-Up Thing”......Page 163
4 - FAMILIES......Page 170
Box 4.1 - The Garcia Family: A Portrait of Urban Los Angeles......Page 179
Box 4.2 - The Miller Family: A Portrait of a Silicon Valley Family......Page 189
Box 4.3 - The Milvert Family: A Portrait of Rural California......Page 207
5 - GAMING......Page 216
Box 5.1 - Neopets: Same Game, Different Meanings......Page 225
Box 5.2 - First-Person Play: Subjectivity, Gamer Code, and Doom......Page 231
Box 5.3 - Learning and Collaborating in Final Fantasy XI......Page 237
Box 5.4 - Machinima: From Learners to Producers......Page 245
6 - CREATIVE PRODUCTION......Page 264
Box 6.1 - “MySpace Is Universal”: Creative Production in a Trajectory of Participation......Page 278
Box 6.2 - All in the Family......Page 284
Box 6.3 - Making Music Together......Page 291
Box 6.4 - **Spoiler Alert**: Harry Potter Podcasting as Collaborative Production......Page 306
7 - WORK......Page 316
Box 7.1 - “I’m Just a Nerd. It’s Not Like I’m a Rock Star or Anything”......Page 332
Box 7.2 - Technological Prospecting in Rural Landscapes......Page 337
Box 7.3 - Being More Than “Just a Banker”: DIY Youth Culture and DIY Capitalism in a High-School Computer Club......Page 341
Box 7.4 - Final Fantasy XI: Trouncing Tiamat......Page 347
Box 7.5 - Eddie: Neopets, Neocapital, and Making a Virtual Buck......Page 352
Conclusion......Page 360
Appendix I: Project Overview......Page 376
Appendix II: Project Descriptions......Page 382
Appendix III: Project Index......Page 392
Bibliography......Page 394
Index......Page 420