June 1, 2016
Summer Camps For Coding? Think Again.
Featured Article in boingboing....
November 29, 2015
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics
Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd. Polity. [amazon link ]...
May 5, 2015
Teens without smartphones encounter a new digital divide
Op-ed with Crystle Martin for the Conversation. [link]...
March 29, 2015
Learning Connected Civics
Mizuko Ito, Elisabeth Soep, Neta Kligler-Vilenchikc, Sangita Shresthovac, Liana Gamber-Thompsond & Arely Zimmerman pages 10-29 Curriculum Inquiry Volume 45, Issue 1, 2015 [free download Abstract Bringing together popular culture studies and sociocultural learning theory, in this paper we formulate the...
December 5, 2014
Learning that Connects
An essay for AdvancED Source. [link] As part of the MacArthur digital media and learning initiative for the past decade, I’ve been trying to understand how young people’s learning is changing in an era when there’s this complete abundance of...
October 9, 2014
Digital Rhetoric
Interview with Liz Losh on Digital Rhetoric for CAT 125 online course...
May 30, 2013
The Geek-Boy Irony Behind Mark Zuckerberg’s Tech Lobby
My plea to the tech sector to address issues of equity and diversity head on in Fast Company. [link]...
March 8, 2013
What Teens Get About the Internet That Parents Don't
A short piece on informal learning online for the Atlantic. [link]...
January 15, 2013
Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design
Ito, Mizuko, Kris Gutiérrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins. 2013. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. [pdf]...
February 10, 2011
Why Social Mobile Media Matters for Broadcasters
This is a transcript of the technology luncheon keynote I gave for the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters Show. I am a cultural anthropologist and I spend a lot of time observing what people in Japan and the US do...
May 13, 2010
Peer-Based Learning in a Networked Age
Keynote address for University of Michigan's Enriching Scholarship 2010 Today's young people are growing up in a radically different media environment from the one that we grew up in. It's a media environment that keeps them connected 24/7 to their...
May 11, 2010
The rewards of non–commercial production: Distinctions and status in the anime music video scene
First Monday, Volume 15, Number 5 - 3 May 2010. Access article [here]....
February 27, 2010
New Media and Its Superpowers: Learning, Post Pokemon
A talk for The National Association of Independent Schools February 25, 2010 Last year we did a press release on the findings of a three-year study of youth online, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Our message was fairly straightforward –...
Amateur Media Production in a Networked Ecology
CSCW 2010 Closing Keynote February 10, 2010 Savannah, Georgia I know most of you have been here for many days now in beautiful Savannah. But I just made it through snowy Chicago this morning to get here for this talk...
January 4, 2010
Peer-Based Learning for a Digital Age
This was a talk given for the Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age event, held at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA on October 27-28, 2009. Last year we did a press release on the findings of a three-year study...
October 10, 2009
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media
Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp. (with Judd Antin, Megan Finn, Arthur Law,...
October 9, 2009
Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2009....
Sociocultural Contexts of Game-Based Learning
A response paper for the National Academy of Science's Committee on Learning Science: Computer Games, Simulations, and Education....
February 24, 2009
Media Literacy and Social Action in a Post-Pokemon World
A rough transcript of a keynote address for the 51st NFAIS Annual Conference February 24, 2009 What is it that kids are doing online these days, and what does it mean for the shape of knowledge, culture, and information in...
December 2, 2008
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
White Paper summarizing the results of the Digital Youth Project and book, Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out. By Mizuko Ito, Heather Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson with Sonja...
May 9, 2008
Participatory Learning in a Networked Society: Lessons from the Digital Youth Project
Presentation for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association Presidential session I’m here today to talk about learning in the networked world. I’ll be drawing on some of the results of a three-year ethnographic project that...
Amateur Cultural Production and Peer-to-Peer Learning
A paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. March 28, 2008. [pdf]...
June 28, 2007
Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places
With Daisuke Okabe and Ken Anderson. Draft of a chapter forthcoming in Rich Ling and Scott Campbell Eds., The Mobile Communication Research Annual Volume 1: The Reconstruction of Space & Time through Mobile Communication Practices. Transaction Books. [pdf]...
March 23, 2007
Networked Publics: Introduction
Forthcoming in Kazys Varnelis Ed., Networked Publics. Cambridge: MIT Press. [pdf]...
January 25, 2007
Education V. Entertainment: A Cultural History of Children's Software
In Katie Salen Ed., Ecology of Games in the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Available for download as [pdf] at the MIT Press Digital Media and Learning site....
December 7, 2006
Neopoints and NeoEconomies: Emergent Regimes of Value in Kids Peer-to-Peer Networks
by Mimi Ito and Heather Horst. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose. November 16, 2006. [pdf]...
September 1, 2006
The Social Uses of Purikura: Photographing, Modding, Archiving, and Sharing
A position paper with Daisuke Okabe, Jan Chipchase, and Aico Shimizu for the Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing workshop for Ubicomp 2006 in Irvine, CA, September 2006. [pdf]...
July 10, 2006
Networked Public Culture
by Adrienne Russell, Mizuko Ito, Todd Richmond, and Mark Tuters. Forthcoming in Kazys Varnelis Ed. Networked Publics. [link]...
June 13, 2006
Engineering Play: Children's Software and the Cultural Politics of Edutainment
This is a preprint of an article submitted for consideration in DISCOURSE, 2006, copyright Taylor & Francis.[pdf]...
May 12, 2006
Mobilizing the Imagination in Everyday Play: The Case of Japanese Media Mixes
In Sonia Livingstone and Kirsten Drotner Eds., International Handbook of Children, Media, and Culture. 2008. [pdf]...
April 17, 2006
The Gender Dynamics of the Japanese Media Mix
A position paper prepared for the workshop and conference on Girls 'n' Games, May 8-9, University of California, Los Angeles. [pdf]...
December 30, 2005
Everyday Contexts of Camera Phone Use: Steps Towards Technosocial Ethnographic Frameworks
2006. In Höflich, Joachim & Hartmann, Maren Eds. Mobile Communication in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic View. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 79-102. [pdf] [ebook]....
December 19, 2005
Portable Computing
A brief essay for an updated edition of Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines edited by Jill Walker and Noah Wardrip-Fruin....
November 28, 2005
Intimate Visual Co-Presence
A short position paper for the 2005 Ubiquitous Computing Conference workshop on Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing. [pdf]...
October 30, 2005
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phones Use
An online essay in Japan Focus....
September 30, 2005
Otaku Media Literacy
A brief essay in the monograph A Global Imperative resulting from the 21st Century Literacy Summit. National Media Consortium....
August 9, 2005
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Ito, Mizuko, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda Eds., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press....
July 1, 2005
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian Images
With Daisuke Okabe. Receiver. July 2005. [link]...
April 30, 2005
Location-Based Moblogging as Method: New Views into the Use and Practices of Personal, Social, and Mobile Technologies
With Daisuke Okabe, Ken Anderson and Scott Mainwaring. Paper presented at Seeing, Understanding, Learning in the Mobile Age, the 2005 International Conference in Budapest, Hungary, April 28-30 [pdf]...
April 22, 2005
Technologies of the Childhood Imagination: Yugioh, Media Mixes, and Everyday Cultural Production
Joe Karaganis Ed. 2007. Sructures of Participation in Digital Culture [pdf]...
January 13, 2005
Emergent Social Practices, Situations and Relations through Everyday Camera Phone Use
A paper by my collaborator Daisuke Okabe, presented at Mobile Communication and Social Change. [pdf]...
December 15, 2004
Mobilizing Fun in the Production and Consumption of Children’s Software
In a special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2005 on Cultural Production in a Digital Age edited by Eric Klinenberg and Claudio Benzecry....
October 15, 2004
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone Use
A paper presented atMobile Communication and Social Change, the 2004 International Conference on Mobile Communication in Seoul, Korea, October 18-19, 2004. [pdf]...
January 16, 2004
Intimate Connections: Contextualizing Japanese Youth and Mobile Messaging
In Richard Harper, Leysia Palen, and Alex Taylor Eds., The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS. Kluwer. 2005. [pdf]...
Technologies of the Childhood Imagination
A paper on Yugioh media mixes for the SSRC newsletter Items and Issues...
February 27, 2003
Technosocial Situations: Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email Use
An earlier draft of the paper, with Daisuke Okabe, that has appeared in Personal Portable Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. [pdf]...
Intertextual Enterprises: Writing Alternative Places and Meanings in the Media Mixed Networks of Yugioh
An early draft of a paper published in Debbora Battaglia Ed. Encountering the Extraterrestrial: Anthropology in Outerspaces. Duke University Press. 2005. [pdf file]...
Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-Placement of Social Contact
An early draft of a paper published in Rich Ling and Per Pedersen Eds. Mobile Communication and the Renegotiation of the Social Sphere. Springer. 2005. [pdf]...
Camera Phones Changing the Definition of Picture-Worthy
An article with Daisuke Okabe on camera phone usage in Japan for Japan Media Review....
Mobiles and the Appropriation of Place
An article for Vodafone's Receiver magazine on mobile phones and place....
A New Set of Social Rules for a Newly Wireless Society
An article in the premier issue of The Japan Media Review...
A New Set of Social Rules for a Newly Wireless Society
This is a Japanese version of my article for the Japan Media Review....
December 1, 2002
Engineering Play: Children's Software and the Productions of Everyday Life
Dissertation. Stanford University Department of Anthropology. 2002. pdf file...
Hypersociality, Otaku, and the Digital Media Mix
Society for the Social Studies of Science Meetings, New Orleans, 2002...
Japanimation, Media Mixing, and Hypersociality
Invited Talk for the Michigan State University Asian Studies Center's Japanese Animation Film and Lecture Series...
December 1, 2001
Making a Place for Seniors On the Net: SeniorNet, Senior Identity, and the Digital Divide
with Vicki O'Day, Annet Adler, Charlotte Linde, and Elizabeth Mynatt. Computers and Society 31(3): 15-21. [pdf]...
December 1, 1999
Cemeteries, Oak Trees, and Black and White Cows: Newcomers' Understandings of the Networked World
with Elizabeth Mynatt, Annette Adler, Charlotte Linde and Vicki O'Day. Proceedings of the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference 1999....
The Network Communites of SeniorNet
with Elizabeth Mynatt, Annette Adler, Charlotte Linde, and Vicki O'Day. ECSCW 99. Download file...
Network Localities
Paper presented at the 1999 meetings of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, San Diego. [pdf]...
December 1, 1998
Interactive Media for Play: Kids, Computer Games, and the Productions of Everyday Life
Dissertation. Stanford University School of Education. 1998....
December 1, 1997
Network Communities: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed...
with Elizabeth Mynatt, Annette Adler and Vicki O'Day. Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing 6: 1-35, 1997....
Trodes, Gloves and Goggles
with Scott S. Fisher. In Proceedings for the 1997 Meetings for the International Society for Optical Engineering. 1997....
Design for Network Communities
with Elizabeth Mynatt, Annette Adler and Vicki O'Day. In Proceedings for the 1997 Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1997. [pdf]...
Kids and Simulation Games: Subject Formation through Human-Machine Interaction
Paper presented at the 1997 meetings of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Tucson. [pdf]...
December 1, 1996
Virtually Embodied: The Reality of Fantasy in a Multi-User Dungeon
In David Porter ed., Internet Culture. New York: Routledge, 1996....
Joichi and Mizuko Ito Interview
with Joichi Ito. In Lynn Hershman Leeson ed., Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1996....
December 1, 1995
Theory, Method, and Design in Anthropologies of the Internet
Social Science Computer Review 14(1): 24-26. 1996....
December 1, 1993
Living Fictions: Extensions of Cybernetic Presence
Intercommunication 6 (Autumn 1993): 118-123...
