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First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…
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- 978-3-031-34450-3
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- XXIII, 294
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Generation digital : politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the inte…
The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture-as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280129
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- 1 online resource (xv, 347 pages)
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- 302 MON g
Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap
How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participate in online communities."Drawing on extensive interviews with young people between the ages of 10 and 25, James describes the nature of their thinking about privacy, property, and participation online. She identifies three ways that young people approach online activit…
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- 9780262325561
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 167 pages).
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Technology's child :digital media's role in the ages and stages of growing up
"Davis addresses the "screen time" debate by recognizing that children's experiences of technology and social relationships are qualitatively distinct at different stages of development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370097
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- 1 online resource
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The Civic Web: Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people. There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join political parties, to campaign for social causes, or to trust political processes. Young people in part…
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- 9781461947349
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages).
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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
This title provides an account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy. The book captures the flexibility of technology by users in the margins but also highlights how their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion into a global network society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301459
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- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) :illustrations.
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Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, a…
Overview: How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to…
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- 9780262266581
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Kids across the spectrums :growing up autistic in the digital age
"This book critiques and complicates the stereotypes of autistic youth by presenting the first in-depth ethnographic study of their everyday uses of media and technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374002
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- 1 online resource
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States of childhood :from the junior republic to the American republic, 1895-…
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work--passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks--inside virtual wor…
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- 0262358603
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- 1 online resource (x, 468 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out :kids living and learning with n…
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- Tenth Anniversary edition
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- 9780262354653
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- 1 online resource (448 pages).
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