From the Chronicle of Higher Education
November 20, 2008
Report on Youth and New Media Pokes at Educational Institutions
By Lisa Guernsey
Peer into the networked world of teenagers and young adults and you’ll see intense, creative communities of young people who want to learn. That’s the conclusion of Living and Learning with New Media, a report on a three-year study called the Digital Youth Project at the University of California at Berkeley. The study was financed by the MacArthur Foundation.
The report, released yesterday, focuses on teenagers, although it includes a few examples of young adults in their 20s. It combines results from interviews, observations, and ethnographic studies conducted by 28 researchers. The researchers explored subjects’ interactions with personal technology, like video cameras and cellphones, and with new media spaces like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, the virtual world of Neopets and others....