Courtesy of BoingBoing: The Digital Youth Project has just released the results of a three year, interdisciplinary study on how young people use online technology. As someone keenly interested in online technology but many calendar years past being a youth, this is very relevant to me.
The entire study will be released as a printed book called “Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media” soon. Fortunately, you can download and read a summary and a white paper in pdf format, and you can read the entire book online for free. It’s all released on a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 license.
I want to read the entire book, right now, but I don’t want to have to look at a website to do it. Maybe you don’t want to, either. So I’ve created two downloadable versions of “Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media” in Open Document and Adobe Acrobat formats:
- Download “Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media” (.odt)
- Download “Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media” (.pdf)
Once I’ve read it, I’ll post my impressions and take-aways. I hope anyone interested in the future of new media and society reads it, too!
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Retweeting @mwsmedia: New blog post: Study On Young People’s Use Of New Media and Social Networking Released http://tinyurl.com/6xhkwx
@timdavies ooh even better! some light reading for me next week ;-) http://tinyurl.com/6xhkwx
@digitalyw Indeed. It’s solid stuff. Ironically, I think I might wait for the paper book before I read it all. http://tinyurl.com/6xhkwx
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