Research: Digital/New Media

• Digital Writing and Research Lab 
• 2015 Horizon Report: Future trends in use of digital tools in K-12

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
• From Written to Digital: The New Literacy by Phillip Ventimiglia and George L. Pullman. E-Learning News 
• Ahern-Dobson, J., & Comer, D. K. (2014). Multidisciplinarity and the tablet: A study of writing practices. The WAC Journal, 24, 63-82 
• eSchool News: Research Shows Barriers to Use of Web 2.0 Tools
• The Good Work Project: Ethical aspects of students' use of digital tools
• Mozilla: Web Literacy Map: Practices constituting uses and production associated with the Web
• Australian Communications and Media Authority: Digital literacy research reports
• Becta Report: Benefits of students' use of Web 2.0 tools on learning
• Beach, R. (2014, October 12). How affordances of digital tool use foster critical literacy. [Webinar]. In Global Conversations in Literacy Research Web Seminar Series
• 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
• Ed Tech News: study of 21st Century Learners
• National School Board Association: 96% of students use social networking sites
• 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
• 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
• 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