Author(s): Mizuko Ito, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, Lisa Tripp
Edition: 1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 439
Series Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Notes on the Text......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 22
1 - MEDIA ECOLOGIES......Page 50
Box 1.1 - Media Ecologies: Quantitative Perspectives......Page 53
Box 1.2 - Michelle......Page 63
Box 1.3 - “You Have Another World to Create”: Teens and Online Hangouts......Page 71
Box 1.4 - The Techne-Mentor......Page 80
Box 1.5 - zalas, a Digital-Information Virtuoso......Page 88
2 - FRIENDSHIP......Page 100
Box 2.1 - Sharing Snapshots of Teen Friendship and Love Katynka Z. Martínez......Page 106
Box 2.2 - From MySpace to Facebook: Coming of Age in Networked Public Culture......Page 113
3 - INTIMACY......Page 138
Box 3.1 - The Public Nature of Mediated Breakups......Page 154
Box 3.2 - Bob Anderson’s Story: “It Was Kind of a Weird Cyber Growing-Up Thing”......Page 163
4 - FAMILIES......Page 170
Box 4.1 - The Garcia Family: A Portrait of Urban Los Angeles......Page 179
Box 4.2 - The Miller Family: A Portrait of a Silicon Valley Family......Page 189
Box 4.3 - The Milvert Family: A Portrait of Rural California......Page 207
5 - GAMING......Page 216
Box 5.1 - Neopets: Same Game, Different Meanings......Page 225
Box 5.2 - First-Person Play: Subjectivity, Gamer Code, and Doom......Page 231
Box 5.3 - Learning and Collaborating in Final Fantasy XI......Page 237
Box 5.4 - Machinima: From Learners to Producers......Page 245
6 - CREATIVE PRODUCTION......Page 264
Box 6.1 - “MySpace Is Universal”: Creative Production in a Trajectory of Participation......Page 278
Box 6.2 - All in the Family......Page 284
Box 6.3 - Making Music Together......Page 291
Box 6.4 - **Spoiler Alert**: Harry Potter Podcasting as Collaborative Production......Page 306
7 - WORK......Page 316
Box 7.1 - “I’m Just a Nerd. It’s Not Like I’m a Rock Star or Anything”......Page 332
Box 7.2 - Technological Prospecting in Rural Landscapes......Page 337
Box 7.3 - Being More Than “Just a Banker”: DIY Youth Culture and DIY Capitalism in a High-School Computer Club......Page 341
Box 7.4 - Final Fantasy XI: Trouncing Tiamat......Page 347
Box 7.5 - Eddie: Neopets, Neocapital, and Making a Virtual Buck......Page 352
Conclusion......Page 360
Appendix I: Project Overview......Page 376
Appendix II: Project Descriptions......Page 382
Appendix III: Project Index......Page 392
Bibliography......Page 394
Index......Page 420
