Heather A. Horst University of California, Irvine

Heather A. Horst University of California, Irvine National Center for Technology Innovation Conference Washington, DC November 15, 2010 Digital Youth and Accessible Media: Findings from the Digital Youth Project (and Beyond)

Factors Shaping Participation

Kids Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures 22 Case Studies 28 Researchers 594 Semi-structured Interviews 78 Informal Interviews 67 Focus Group Interviews 28 Diary Studies 4,146 Questionnaires 5000+ Observation Hrs 10,468 profiles 15 online forums 389 videos 50 events or gatherings Classroom Observations Program Observations

Research Sites Institutional Spaces School After School Programs focused on Digital Media Interest-Based Communities Anime Fans Harry Potter Fans Xbox Live Gamers Video Blogging Homes and Families Urban Los Angeles Suburban San Francisco Bay Area Rural California Urban New York Networked Sites MySpace YouTube Neopets

Friendship-Driven Participation

Interest-Driven Participation

Interest: FangQueen13 and Fan Fiction HANGING OUT: Google Chat and Watching Buffy with her sister MESSING AROUND: Reading others fanfic, Downloading Music, Photoshopping Art, etc. GEEKING OUT: Buffy Fan Fiction Reading, Critiquing and Writing

Connecting Learning Ecologies

From Research to Practice: http://youmediachicago.org/

Reports and Publications

THANK YOU!Contact Information:Heather A. HorstDigital Media and Learning Research HubUC Humanities Research Institute4000 Humanities Gateway BuildingUniversity of California, IrvineIrvine, CA 92697-3350Email: hhorst@uci.edu Digital Media and Learning (DML) Central: http://dmlcentral.net

Heather A. Horst University of California, Irvine

Heather A. Horst University of California, Irvine

Presentation Transcript

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Andrew J. Lankford University of California, Irvine

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Peter Jones, University of California, Irvine Anne Jones, University of California, Riverside

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University of California, Irvine Undergraduate Students

University of California, Irvine University Registrar

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Deborah Lowe Vandell University of California, Irvine

G. Avolio – University of California, Irvine

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Martha Mecartney Professor, University of California, Irvine

Viveck R. Cadambe University of California, Irvine

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Elizabeth Losh, University of California, Irvine

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