September 12, 2024
“Youth Engagement and Empowerment through Cell Phone Access.” Guest Speaker at Real Issues, Real Data: Cell Phones, Students and Schools hosted by the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational …
Digital Youth Culture
August 02, 2019
Talk at Microsoft in Redmond,WA. The case studies in the Leveling Up project of the Connected Learning Research Network investigated what features of online affinity networks support productive and co…
January 31, 2019
“Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning.” Talk given at the Information Studies 2018-19 Colloquia at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. January 31, 2019.…
January 07, 2019
Ito, Mimi. 2019. “Close the Digital Gap, Unlock the Power of Online Affinity Networks, and Fuel Learning.” Connected Learning Alliance Blog, January 7th.
Originally published on the Connected L…
December 01, 2018
Ito, Mizuko, Crystle Martin, Rachel Cody-Pfister, Matthew H, Rafalow, Katie Salen Tekinbaş, and Amanda Wortman. 2018. Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning. New York: NYU P…
January 17, 2014
Cross posted from the Connected Learning Research Network Leveling Up project blog
It’s the start of a new year and time to take stock. It’s been three years since the launch of the Connected Learn…
January 28, 2012
Ito, Mizuko, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tsuji. 2012. Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World. New Haven: Yale University Press.
(Japanese Translation) Okakuteki Souzouryoku no Rimitto, Lim…
January 03, 2012
I'm proud to announce the publication of a new book that I edited together with my longtime collaborator Daisuke Okabe and a new editorial collaborator Tsuji Izumi, Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a …
November 16, 2011
“Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World.” Talk for the MIT Cool Japan and Center for Civic Media speaker series. November 16, 2011.…
June 27, 2011
Chicago Tribune. 2021. “Teen Media Center Branching Out.” Featured in Chicago Tribune, August 23.
Chicago Tribune reports on the scale-up of YouMedia digital media youth centers, informed by findi…
May 13, 2010
Keynote address for University of Michigan's Enriching Scholarship 2010.
Today's young people are growing up in a radically different media environment from the one that we grew up in. It's a media…
February 25, 2010
Ito, Mizuko. "New Media and Its Superpowers." Featured Talk for the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Independent Schools, San Francisco, CA. February 25, 2010.
A talk for The…
February 10, 2010
Closing keynote for Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2010.
CSCW 2010 Closing Keynote
February 10, 2010
Savannah, Georgia
I know most of you have been here for many days now in beautiful Sav…
October 09, 2009
Ito, Mizuko. 2009. "Response Paper: Sociocultural Contexts of Game-Based Learning." Paper submitted to the National Academy of Science Committee on Learning Science: Computer Games, Simulations, and E…
February 24, 2009
Ito, Mizuko. “Born Digital—Born Mobile.” Keynote address for the NFAIS Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. February 2009.
A rough transcript of a closing keynote address for the 51st NFAIS Ann…
November 26, 2008
Ashbrook, Tom. 2008. “Digital Youth.” Featured in NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook, November 26.
1 hour call-in program with three wired youth, discussing findings of the Digital Youth Project.…
November 20, 2008
Kopytoff, Verne. "Kids Gain Valuable Skills from Time Online.” 2008. Featured in San Francisco Chronicle, November 20.
Coverage of the Digital Youth Project.…
November 19, 2008
Ito, Mizuko, Heather A. Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson. 2009. Living and Learning with New Media: A Summary of Findings f…
September 04, 2008
In honor of back to school week, I am posting a much belated update on various transitions that I've been navigating over the past few months. Over the summer, we wrapped up our writing for the summat…
May 09, 2008
Ito, Mizuko. 2008. “Participatory Learning in a Networked Society: Lessons from the Digital Youth Project.” Presentation for the Presidential Symposium for the American Educational Research Associatio…
April 28, 2008
Cockrell, Cathy. 2008. “Plumbing the Mysterious Practices of 'Digital Youth': In First Public Report From a 'Seminal' Study, UC Berkeley Scholars Shed Light on Kids' Use of Web 2.0 Tools.” Quoted in U…
April 25, 2008
SF Chronicle coverage of the Stanford public forum on the Digital Youth Project.…
April 24, 2008
Olsen, Stephanie. 2008. “Are Wired Kids Well Served by Schools?” Featured in CNet News Blog, April 24. …
March 19, 2008
We are nearing the end of three years of ethnographic work on the digital youth project that I have been helping lead together with Peter Lyman, Michael Carter, and Barrie Thorne. The project has invo…
December 26, 2007
I'm a bit late to blog this, but a few weeks ago the MacArthur Foundation did an official announcement of a new book series on Digital Media and Learning being published by MIT Press. They also announ…