Mizuko Ito

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Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel LearningPaperback, 18 December 2018

Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning
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Connected Youth and Digital Futures
Part of Series
Open Access Lib and Hc
Print Length
256 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
18 Dec 2018
ISBN-10
1479852759
ISBN-13
9781479852758

Description

How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people

Boyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affinity networks, Affinity Online considers how young people have found new opportunities for expanded learning in the digital age. These cases reveal the shared characteristics and unique cultures and practices of different online affinity networks, and how they support "connected learning"--learning that brings together youth interests, social activity, and accomplishment in civic, academic, and career relevant arenas. Although involvement in online communities is an established fixture of growing up in the networked age, participation in these spaces show how young people are actively taking up new media for their own engaged learning and social development.

While providing a wealth of positive examples for how the online world provides new opportunities for learning, the book also examines the ways in which these communities still reproduce inequalities based on gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The book concludes with a set of concrete suggestions for how the positive learning opportunities offered by online communities could be made available to more young people, at school and at home. Affinity Online explores how online practices and networks bridge the divide between in-school and out-of-school learning, finding that online affinity networks are creating new spaces of opportunity for realizing the ideals of connected learning.

Product Details

Authors:
Mizuko ItoCrystle MartinRachel Cody PfisterMatthew H RafalowKatie SalenAmanda Wortman
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 December 2018
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
1479852759
ISBN-13:
9781479852758
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Weight:
317.51 gm

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