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"Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings-at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. By focusing on media practices in the everyday contexts of family and peer interaction, the book views the relationship of youth and new media not simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the broader structural conditions of childhood and the negotiations with adults that frame the experience of youth in the United States.
Integrating twenty-three different case studies-which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music-sharing, and online romantic breakups-in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis."
"Free Group Texting"
Could be useful to:
-Teachers wanting to share reminders, announcements.
-Coaches and band directors needing to inform parents that buses are behind schedule on return trip
in CITE Journal - Language Arts Volume 10, Issue 3 (2010) ISSN 1528-580
Ewa McGrail
Georgia State University
J. Patrick McGrail
Jacksonville State University
Social media more often seems to be a way to get kicked out of a job -- unseemly
photos, an off-color post -- but some job-seekers are using it to land their
dream jobs