The Digital Edge : How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality /

The Digital Edge : How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality /

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How black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate online The Digital Edge examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. While notions of the digital divide between the "technolog...

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Main Author: Watkins, S. Craig (Samuel Craig) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ungerechtigkeit
Schwarze
Neue Medien
Lernen
Lateinamerikaner
Jugend
Low-income high school students.
Internet and youth.
Hispanic American youth > Social conditions.
Equality.
Digital divide.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Equality > United States.
Low-income high school students > United States.
African American youth > Social conditions.
Internet and youth > United States.
Digital divide > United States.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
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Summary:How black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate online The Digital Edge examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. While notions of the digital divide between the "technology rich" and the "technology poor" have largely focused on access to new media technologies, the contours of the digital divide have grown increasingly complex. Analyzing data from a year-long ethnographic study at Freeway High School, the authors investigate how the digital media ecologies and practices of black and Latino youth have adapted as a result of the wider diffusion of the internet all around us--in homes, at school, and in the palm of our hands. Their eager adoption of different technologies forge new possibilities for learning and creating that recognize the collective power of youth: peer networks, inventive uses of technology, and impassioned interests that are remaking the digital world. Relying on nearly three hundred in-depth interviews with students, teachers, and parents, and hundreds of hours of observation in technology classes and after school programs, The Digital Edge carefully documents some of the emergent challenges for creating a more equitable digital and educational future.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781479888788
Access:Open Access

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