Description of the book

• Title: Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out: kids living and learning with new media
• Author: makaroo and
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Copyright: 2010
• Call Number 302.2310835 HAN h
• Supplement:

By focusing on media practices in the everyday contexts of family and peer interaction, the book views the relationship of youth and new media not simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the broader structural conditions of childhood and negotiations with adult that frame the experience of youth in the United States. Integrating 23 case studies in a unique collaborative authorship style, this book is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with c