Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and the New Media [Paperback]

David Buckingham (Editor), Rebekah Willett (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 23, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0805859802 | ISBN-13: 978-0805859805 | Edition: First Edition

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'...this volume includes both quantitative and qualitative studies, many incorporating surveys, interviews, and/or participant observations. Covering topics of significant current interest, this collection is solid overall and will serve curricula and research at most institutions. Recommended.' - CHOICE

'a variety of interesting and provocative findings... provides valuable insights for researchers in this field, as well as for educators, students, parents, and practitioners in digital media.' - Online Information Review

'Digital Generations may be best viewed as a photo album filled with rich and postive images of the types of entertainment-, academic-, community-, and civic-based activities that children and young people worldwide now avail themselves of as a result of rapidly changing digital technology... they are images that should exert a durable influence on how social scientists frame the study of children's and young people's incorporation of burgeoning forms of digital media into their daily routines.' - Fran Blumberg, PsycCRITIQUES

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; First Edition edition (June 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805859802
• ISBN-13: 978-0805859805
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,986,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)