This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings--at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Ou…
Shifting the conversation about the "digital divide" from questions of technological access to questions about opportunities for being involved in participatory culture and acquiring the necessary skills.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A proposal to move the academic area of digital media and learning toward more coherence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An overview of emerging topics, theories, methods, and practices in sonic interactive design, with a focus on the multisensory aspects of sonic experience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An argument that the gas industry was the first integrated large-scale technological network and that it signaled a new wave of industrial innovation.In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the origins of the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network, a de…
This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on the new imagery world opened by the Internet and the digital world. It offers analytical approaches to the visual.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Project teams can improve results by recognizing that the future is inevitably uncertain and that by creating flexible designs they can adapt to eventualities. This approach enables them to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid harmful losses. Designers of complex, long-lasting projects--such as communication networks, power plants, or hospitals--must learn to abandon fixed specificatio…
Drawing on literature from many disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the study of environmental commons, Schweik and English examine stages of open-source software (OSS) development, presenting multivariate statistical models of success and abandonment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices--including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there…
Sound, tone, music, voice, and noise as forms of sonority through which our current economic and ecological crises can be understood.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.