Digital Youth Project Finds Teens Learn from E-interactions

A 3-year study, underwritten by the MacArthur Foundation, has found that online social networks, online games, and electronic devices such as cell phones and i-pods are integrated into youth culture. Teens aren’t wasting time online, but are gaining technical and social skills. Read more about the study’s conclusion on the project site, Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures, or check out the New York Times report, “Facebook, MySpace Beneficial to Teens” on the study. Especially interesting to librarians may be the report of the roles of adults in this teen culture.