The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Communities

by Kimberley Gomez, Nichole Pinkard, Brigid Barron, et al.

An ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged students develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.

The popular image of the "digital native"--usually depicted as a technically savvy and digitally empowered teen--is based on the assumption that all young people are equally equipped to become innovators and entrepreneurs. Yet young people in low-income...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027038
• ISBN13: 9780262027038
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher