| Series Foreword
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| Acknowledgments
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| Notes on the Text
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| INTRODUCTION
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| 1 | MEDIA ECOLOGIES
Heather A. Horst, Becky Herr-Stephenson and Laura Robinson
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| Box 1.1 | Media Ecologies: Quantitative Perspectives
Christo Sims | 32 |
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| Box 1.2 | Michelle
Lisa Tripp | 42 |
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| Box 1.3 | "You Have Another World to Create"
Teens and Online Hangouts
C. J. Pascoe | 50 |
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| Box 1.4 | The Techne-Mentor
Megan Finn | 59 |
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| Box 1.5 | zalas, a Digital-Information Virtuoso
Mizuko Ito | 67 |
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| 2 | FRIENDSHIP
danah boyd | 79 |
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| Box 2.1 | Sharing Snapshots of Teen Friendship and Love
Katynka Z. Martinez | 85 |
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| Box 2.2 | From MySpace to Facebook
Coming of Age in Networked Public Culture
Heather A. Horst | 92 |
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| 3 | INTIMACY
C. J. Pascoe | 117 |
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| Box 3.1 | The Public Nature of Mediated Breakups
danah boyd | 133 |
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| Box 3.2 | Bob Anderson's Story
"It Was Kind of a Weird Cyber Growing-Up Thing"
Christo Sims | 142 |
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| 4 | FAMILIES
Heather A. Horst | 149 |
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| Box 4.1 | The Garcia Family
A Portrait of Urban Los Angeles
Katynka Z. Martinez | 158 |
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| Box 4.2 | The Miller Family
A Portrait of a Silicon Valley Family
Heather A. Horst | 168 |
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| Box 4.3 | The Milvert Family
A Portrait of Rural California
Christo Sims | 186 |
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| 5 | GAMING
Mizuko Ito and Matteo Bittanti | 195 |
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| Box 5.1 | Neopets: Same Game, Different Meanings
Laura Robinson and Heather A. Horst | 204 |
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| Box 5.2 | First-Person Play: Subjectivity, Gamer Code, and Doom
Matteo Bittanti | 210 |
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| Box 5.3 | Learning and Collaborating in Final Fantasy XI
Rachel Cody | 216 |
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| Box 5.4 | Machinima: From Learners to Producers
Matteo Bittanti | 224 |
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| 6 | CREATIVE PRODUCTION
Patricia G. Lange and Mizuko Ito | 243 |
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| Box 6.1 | "MySpace Is Universal"
Creative Production in a Trajectory of Participation
Dan Perkel | 257 |
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| Box 6.2 | All in the Family
Patricia G. Lange | 263 |
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| Box 6.3 | Making Music Together
Dilan Mahendran | 270 |
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| Box 6.4 | **Spoiler Alert**
Harry Potter Podcasting as Collaborative Production
Becky Herr-Stephenson | 285 |
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| 7 | WORK
Mizuko Ito | 295 |
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| Box 7.1 | "I'm Just a Nerd. It's Not Like I'm a Rock Star or Anything"
Mizuko Ito | 311 |
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| Box 7.2 | Technological Prospecting in Rural Landscapes
Christo Sims | 316 |
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| Box 7.3 | Being More Than "Just a Banker"
DIY Youth Culture and DIY Capitalism in a High-School Computer Club
Katynka Z. Martinez | 320 |
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| Box 7.4 | Final Fantasy XI: Trouncing Tiamat
Rachel Cody | 326 |
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| Box 7.5 | Eddie: Neopets, Neocapital, and Making a Virtual Buck
Laura Robinson | 331 |
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| CONCLUSION | 339 |
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| Appendix I: Project Overview | 355 |
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| Appendix II: Project Descriptions | 361 |
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| Appendix III: Project Index | 371 |
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| Bibliography | 373 |
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| Index
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