The digital edge : how Black and Latino youth navigate digital inequality / / S. Craig Watkins [and five others].

• VerfasserIn: Watkins, S. Craig; Cho, Alexander,
• TeilnehmendeR: Lombana-Bermudez, Andres; Shaw, Vivian; Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan; Weinzimmer, Lauren
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2018]; Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2021; ©[2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Connected youth and digital futures.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (219 pages).

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.

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Appendix: Design of the StudyNotes; References; Index; About the Authors

Intro; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Digital Edge; 1. How Black and Latino Youth Are Remaking the Digital Divide; 2. The Mobile Paradox: Understanding the Mobile Lives of Latino and Black Youth; 3. Technology on the Edge of Formal Education; 4. The STEM Crisis in Education; 5. Gaming School: How Students Strive to Learn in Technology-Rich, Curriculum-Poor Classrooms; 6. After the Bell: Why What Kids Do after School Matters; 7. Dissonant Futures; Conclusion: Future Ready: Preparing Young People for Tomorrow's World