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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, S. Craig (Samuel Craig), author.

Series:

Connected youth and digital futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital divide--United States.

Digital divide.

Low-income high school students.

Hispanic American youth--Social conditions.

Hispanic American youth.

African American youth.

Social conditions.

Internet and youth.

United States.

Internet and youth--United States.

African American youth--Social conditions.

Low-income high school students--United States.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Physical Description:

xvi, 291 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 How Black and Latino Youth Are Remaking the Digital Divide p. 19 / S. Craig Watkins

2 The Mobile Paradox: Understanding the Mobile Lives of Latino and Black Youth p. 50 / S. Craig Watkins

3 Technology on the Edge of Formal Education p. 78 / Jacqueline Ryan Vickery and Vivian Shaw

4 The STEM Crisis in Education p. 104 / S. Craig Watkins

5 Gaming School: How Students Strive to Learn in Technology-Rich, Curriculum-Poor Classrooms p. 133 / S. Craig Watkins

6 After the Bell: Why What Kids Do after School Matters p. 161 / S. Craig Watkins and Andres Lombana-Bermudez and Lauren Weinzimmer

7 Dissonant Futures p. 189 / Alexander Cho and Vivian Shaw and S. Craig Watkins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479854110

1479854115

9781479849857

1479849855

OCLC:

1031947848