Submitted by pberry on Nov 05, 2009, 10:52 PM
  

On the MIT site, this new title is available for download. I thought it might be of interest: 

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Hanging_Out.pdf

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
Kids Living and Learning with New Media
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 and Lisa Tripp
An examination of young people's everyday new media practicesincluding video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.

 

 

 

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Nice
Posted on Nov 06, 2009-10:15am by mikenutt
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I love that you can download it for free. I'm especially looking forward to the section on "creative production". I think we (especially the older we) have a lot to learn about everyday media production practices.

Mike 

Thanks!
Posted on Nov 12, 2009-03:20pm by Jentery Sayers

Until now, I hadn't heard about this book.  Appreciate your letting us know, Patrick!  Hope all's well.