The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically.
Thanks to the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation, open access electronic versions of all the books in this series are available. Follow the links from each title description below to read these editions.
Civic Life Online Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
Edited by W. Lance Bennett
The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Paper / December 2007 Price $16.00 | ADD TO CART
Civic Life Online Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
Edited by W. Lance Bennett
The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Cloth / December 2007 Price $32.00 | ADD TO CART
Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility Edited by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin
The difficulties in determining the quality of information on the Internet—in particular, the implications of wide access and questionable credibility for youth and learning. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Paper / December 2007 Price $16.00 | ADD TO CART
Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility Edited by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin
The difficulties in determining the quality of information on the Internet—in particular, the implications of wide access and questionable credibility for youth and learning. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Cloth / December 2007 Price $32.00 | ADD TO CART
Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected Edited by Tara McPherson
How emergent practices and developments in young people's digital media can result in technological innovation or lead to unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Paper / December 2007 Price $16.00 | ADD TO CART
Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected Edited by Tara McPherson
How emergent practices and developments in young people's digital media can result in technological innovation or lead to unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Cloth / December 2007 Price $32.00 | ADD TO CART
The Ecology of Games Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Edited by Katie Salen
An exploration of games as systems in which young people participate as gamers, producers, and learners. Read the complete open access edition
HERE. Paper / December 2007 Price $16.00 | ADD TO CART
The Ecology of Games Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Edited by Katie Salen
An exploration of games as systems in which young people participate as gamers, producers, and learners. Read the complete open access edition
HERE. Cloth / December 2007 Price $32.00 | ADD TO CART
Engineering Play A Cultural History of Children's Software Mizuko Ito
How the influential industry that produced such popular games as Oregon Trail and KidPix emerged from experimental efforts to use computers as tools in child-centered learning. Cloth / October 2009 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
Learning Race and Ethnicity Youth and Digital Media
Edited by Anna Everett
An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital media landscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and the digital divide. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Paper / December 2007 Price $16.00 | ADD TO CART
Learning Race and Ethnicity Youth and Digital Media
Edited by Anna Everett
An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital media landscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and the digital divide. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Cloth / December 2007 Price $32.00 | ADD TO CART
Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Edited by David Buckingham
Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people's individual and social identities. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Paper / December 2007 Price $16.00 | ADD TO CART
Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Edited by David Buckingham
Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people's individual and social identities. Read the complete open access edition HERE. Cloth / December 2007 Price $32.00 | ADD TO CART