October 9, 2009
Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software
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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2009.
Posted by Mizuko Ito at October 9, 2009 11:25 PM
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- 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
- Media Literacy and Social Action in a Post-Pokemon World
- Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
- Participatory Learning in a Networked Society: Lessons from the Digital Youth Project
- Amateur Cultural Production and Peer-to-Peer Learning
- Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places
- Networked Publics: Introduction
- Education V. Entertainment: A Cultural History of Children's Software
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