Mixing the Digital, Social, and Cultural: Learning, Identity, and Agency in Youth Participation
Mixing the Digital, Social, and Cultural: Learning, Identity, and Agency in Youth Participation
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混合数字、社会和文化:青年参与中的学习、身份和代理
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2008
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M. McDermott
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S. Goldman;Angela Booker;M. McDermott
Innovations in technology are, once again, shaping how adults and youth interact with each other in school, at home, and at large. Our focus in this chapter is on how youth use multiple forms of media and technology, in concert with their commitments to community dialogue and social justice, as they learn to be participants in civic and democratic practices. We share two case studies that revolve around youth–adult interactions in learning environments that offer youth real opportunities to be influential in their respective communities. We look firstly at youth media production in the context of a community-based media arts project, and secondly at how young people use technology in the course of their work as student representatives on their local school board. Our aim in this context is to understand how digital media are used in relation to what we shall call social and cultural technologies, those tools that organize social participation in particular settings.1 Our definition of the word technology is consistent with Raymond Williams’s view: