December 1, 2002
Engineering Play: Children's Software and the Productions of Everyday Life
Publications
Dissertation. Stanford University Department of Anthropology. 2002. pdf file
Posted by Mizuko Ito at December 1, 2002 1:55 PM
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Publications
- Machinima in a Fanvid Ecology
- Why Social Mobile Media Matters for Broadcasters
- Peer-Based Learning in a Networked Age
- The rewards of non–commercial production: Distinctions and status in the anime music video scene
- New Media and Its Superpowers: Learning, Post Pokemon
- Amateur Media Production in a Networked Ecology
- Peer-Based Learning for a Digital Age
- Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media
- Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software
- Sociocultural Contexts of Game-Based Learning
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tzuji Eds.
"This is the first comprehensive book to examine the full range of practices we associate with Otaku culture. The range of material covered here - from train watchers to cosplayers, from model builders to fansubbers - is really spectacular, helping us to move beyond encrusted stereotypes of the isolated Otaku to a much more nuanced understanding of the Otaku subculture."
--Henry Jenkins
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
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
Mizuko Ito, et al.
Comments
is there software for a 10 year old that would foster a love for engineering? my grandson is awesome, but he needs some more exposure...do you know of anything?
Personally, I am partial to the Sim line of games, though the content is not technically engineering, it does get kids in the programming and tinkering mindset. Otherwise, you could go for more programming types of software such as Squeak or MicroWorlds