Digital generations : children, young people, and new media / edited by David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Computer games, the Internet, and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people, but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. As we start to look beyond the immediate hopes and fears that new technologies often provoke, there is a growing need for in-depth empirical research. Digital Generations presents a range of exciting and challenging new work on children, young people, and new digital media. The book is organized around four key themes: Play and Gaming, The Internet, Identities and Communities Online, and Learning and Education. The book brings together researchers from a range of academic disciplines - including media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology and education - and will be of interest to a wide readership of researchers, students, practitioners in digital media, and educators.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. ix)
• List of Contributors (p. xi)
• 1 Is There a Digital Generation? (p. 1)
• I Play and Gaming
• 2 The War Between Effects and Meaning: Rethinking the Video Game Violence Debate (p. 19)
• 3 Digital Games and the Narrative Gap (p. 33)
• 4 Japanese Media Mixes and Amateur Cultural Exchange (p. 49)
• 5 Activity Theory and Learning From Digital Games: Developing an Analytical Methodology (p. 67)
• II The Internet
• 6 Regulating the Internet at Home: Contrasting the Perspectives of Children and Parents (p. 93)
• 7 Active and Calculated Media Use Among Young Citizens: Empirical Examples From a Swedish Study (p. 115)
• 8 Youth as e-Citizens: The Internet's Contribution to Civic Engagement (p. 131)
• 9 Cyber-Censorship or Cyber-Literacy? Envisioning Cyber-Learning Through Media Education (p. 149)
• III Identities and Online Communities
• 10 It's a gURL Thing: Community Versus Commodity in Girl-Focused Netspace (p. 177)
• 11 Adolescent Diary Weblogs and the Unseen Audience (p. 193)
• 12 "Hello newbie! [characters not reproducible]**big welcome hugs** hope u like it here as much as i do! [characters not reproducible]": An Exploration of Teenagers' Informal Online Learning (p. 211)
• 13 Virtually Queer Youth Communities of Girls and Birls: Dialogical Spaces of Identity Work and Desiring Exchanges (p. 229)
• IV Learning and Education
• 14 Toward Bridging Digital Divides in Rural (South) Africa (p. 251)
• 15 Digital Anatomies: Analysis as Production in Media Education (p. 273)
• 16 Digital Rapping in Media Productions: Intercultural Communication Through Youth Culture (p. 295)
• 17 Hopeworks: Youth Identity, Youth Organization, and Technology (p. 313)
• Author Index (p. 331)
• Subject Index (p. 335)