A review by pkadams
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media by Mizuko Ito

4.0

A MacArthur Foundation funded project that MIT Press published translates into a serious read and trusted authority about how teenagers interact today with technology. It focuses on three spheres of interaction; social, media, and technical. Each sphere is important to teens and it provides extensive ethnographic evidence of what that looks like. It goes into detail describing how life for teens has changed and where the technology provides merely the illusion of change. What came across was the wildly creative and rich technology interests teens have. Scrutiny of parents' fears as viewed through the lens of rational study seemed to make my cohorts actions absurd, over the top and dare I say revealed how out of touch we are.