Digital Generations

<p>Computer games the Internet and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. As we start to look beyond the immediate hopes and fears that new technologies often provoke there is a growing need for in-depth empirical research. <i>Digital Generations</i> presents a range of exciting and challenging new work on children young people and new digital media. The book is organized around four key themes: Play and Gaming The Internet Identities and Communities Online and Learning and Education. The book brings together researchers from a range of academic disciplines – including media and cultural studies anthropology sociology psychology and education – and will be of interest to a wide readership of researchers students practitioners in digital media and educators.</p>