Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and the New Media - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805858628 ISBN 13: 9780805858624

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805858628
• ISBN 13: 9780805858624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Buckingham David, Willett Rebekah