The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often...
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some lev...
Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead
Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.
By discussing spreadable media, we aim to facilitate a more nuanced account of how and why things spread and to encourage our readers to adopt and help build a more holistic and sustainable model for...
Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn’t want...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published
When politicians like Sen. Joseph Lieberman target video game violence, perhaps it is to distract attention from the material conditions that give rise to a culture of domestic violence, the economic...
Buckingham argues that young people's lack of interest in news and their disconnection from politics reflects their perception of disempowerment. By and large, young people are not defined by society...
Out of informal learning communities if they fail to meet our needs; we enjoy no such mobility in our relations to formal education.Affinity spaces are also highly generative environments from which n...