Research: Digital/New Media
Digital Writing and Research Lab
Students' Use of Digital/New Media
Academic Skills on Web Are Tied To Income Levels. The New York Times
The Most Popular Social Network for Young People? Texting. The Atlantic
Digital Youth Report: 3-year study of young people's use of digital media
eSchool News: Research Shows Barriers to Use of Web 2.0 Tools
The Good Work Project: Ethical aspects of students' use of digital tools
Australian Communications and Media Authority: Digital literacy research reports
Becta Report: Benefits of students' use of Web 2.0 tools on learning
Withers, K. & Sheldon, R. (2008). Behind the Screen: The hidden life of youth online. London: Institute for Public Policy Research
CLAIM: Critical Literacy and Arts-Integrated Media project, University of British Columbia
Video: UC Berkeley conference: From MySpace to Hip-Hop: New Media in the Everyday Lives of Youth
PBS: Frontline documentary: Growing Up Online
David Crysal, 2b or not 2b, The Guardian, July 5, 2008: study finds that texting may actually improve students' spelling and writing
Troy Hicks's Notes on Steve Graham's presentation on effect sizes on composition teaching methods
Teachers Guide for Growing Up Online
New Literacies Research Center, University of Connecticut
Temple University: Media Education Lab
British Office of Communication (2008). Media Literacy Audit: Report on UK Children’s Media Literacy
MacArthur Foundation book series on youth and digital media: MIT Press (free open-access books)
David Buckingham (Ed.), 2007: Youth, Identity, and Digital Media (open-source book in the MIT Press series)
National School Boards Association. (2007). Creating & connecting: Research and guidelines on online social and educational networking
Lee Raine, Pew Internet & American Life Project: Eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today's teens and twenty-somethings
Ed Tech News: study of 21st Century Learners
National School Board Association: 96% of students use social networking sites
The Pew Internet and American Life Project: Teens limit online profile data
Pew Internet & American Life Project: A decade of adoption: How the Internet has woven itself into American life
Pew Internet & American Life Project: The State of Blogging
Pew Internet & American Life Project: use of IM’ing
MTV/Microsoft study finds differences in teen use of new media across different countries
Research on social networking: Fallows, D. (2006). Growing Numbers Surf the Web Just for Fun.
Report: Pew Internet and American Family: On a daily basis, one third of Web users in Fall, 2005—about 40 million people, go online for no specific reason—other than to pass the time or simply for fun.
Ball State University Center for Media Design research: Americans Constantly Multitasking with Various Media Throughout the Day, particularly with use of magazines with the Web, radio, and TV
USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future: Study of Web Use, Center for the Digital Future
78.6 percent of Americans go online devoting an average of 13.3 hours per week. The top 10 for 2005 are: e-mail, general Web surfing, reading news, shopping, entertainment news (searching and reading), seeking information about hobbies, online banking, medical information (searching and reading), instant messaging, and seeking travel arrangements and travel information. More than 80 percent (83.3 percent) say that going online is very important or extremely important for use with schooling almost two-thirds of users who have access to the Internet at work (66.3 percent) say that going online at work makes them somewhat more productive or much more productive. Users in large numbers (71.3 percent) will sometimes or often go online without a specific destination in mind.
Livingstone, S., van Couvering, E. & Thumim, N. (2005). Adult Media Literacy: A Review Of The Research Literature. London: Ofcom.
TAPOR: Humanities Computing research papers
Compile: Database of composition theory and research
Media in Transition: MIT: new media
The New Media Thinking Project: students' creation of documentaries
Voices of the Shuttle: The Technology of Writing
The Center for Society and Cyber Studies
Research on Students' Digital/Media Literacies
Martine Braaksma, Gert Rijlaarsdam, and Tanja Janssen, University of Amsterdam, Writing Hypertexts for Acquiring Writing Skills and Content Knowledge (cited in Chapter 1)
Study on students' use of digital literacies in schools
Nahachewsky, J. & Ward, A. (2007). Contrapuntal writing: Student discourse in an online literature class, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 6(1)
University of Colorado: Teens and New Media Project
Video: Renee Hobbs: What the Research Says: Research on media literacy
Alloy Media + Marketing and Harris Interactive
Teens Set New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Media: Generation Redefines Friendship as Virtual Communication Plays Increasingly Important Role in Relationships
For today's teen, friendships are developed in areas beyond the school walls or their neighborhoods. Email and social networking sites such as MySpace(R), Sconex, and Facebook(TM) allow young people to expand their social connections by contacting and becoming friends with people who they have not necessarily met in person. Alloy Media + Marketing and Harris Interactive(R) findings from a collaborative study offer an emerging picture of what friendship means to today's youth. New technologies shift means of communication across this digital generation, as teens come to define their closest circles by those they are connected with both online and offline.
Online social networks are providing fertile ground for teens to practice social behaviors, to try out different personas in their exploration for identity, and to nurture friendships. In some cases, online social networks allow for more intimate connections than offline relationships. The study depicts a generation more at ease through virtual communication, with many reporting they are more likely to reveal their true selves and to share more personal information with friends online than face-to-face.
According to Suzanne Martin, Ph.D., Research Manager Youth and Education Research, Harris Interactive, "The Internet plays an increasingly important role in kids' friendships. Social networking websites aid in youth development by providing an arena to build meaningful relationships, establish independence, strengthen their identity and become connected to a community that is not limited to their physical community."
Buckingham, D. (2005). The Media Literacy Of Children And Young People: A Review Of The Research Literature. London: Ofcom.
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