Mimi Ito - Weblog

Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software
Mizuko Ito.

"In a sophisticated and subtle analysis of software for children, the author explores the complex interplay among historical forces, parental ideals, children's desires, the consumer marketplace, and the Zeitgeist."
--Howard Gardner

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Mizuko Ito, et al.

"This is a beautifully written and extraordinarily rich account of perhaps the most important challenge cyberspace gives us: understanding how it is changing out kids and how it might change our understanding of literacy."
--Lawrence Lessig

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda Eds.

"This is not just about a technology or the way it is used in one country. It's about understanding one of the most important ways that twenty-first century lives will differ from those of the twentieth century."
--Howard Rheingold