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How the influential industry that produced such popular games as Oregon Trail and KidPix emerged from experimental efforts to use computers as tools in child-centered learning.

Children's software --- Computer-assisted instruction --- Computers and children --- Entertainment computing --- Development --- History. --- Children and computers --- Juvenile software --- Software for children --- Amusements --- Electronic data processing --- Children --- Computer software --- Computers and children. --- EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning --- GAME STUDIES/Games in Education --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies

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An examination of young people's everyday new media practices--including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youths' social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings--at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces. Integrating twenty-three case studies--which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups--in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.

Computer. Automation --- Age group sociology --- United States --- Mass media and youth --- Digital media --- Technology and youth --- Learning --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Learning process --- Comprehension --- Education --- Youth and technology --- Youth --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- social media --- youth media --- children's media --- podcast --- video-games --- videogame --- text message --- ethnography --- Digital Youth Project --- media literacymedia ecology --- Médias numériques --- Médias et jeunesse --- Formation en ligne --- Geeks --- Aspect social --- États-Unis --- Enquêtes

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In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as "geek"-an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content. In this collection of essays, Japanese and American scholars offer richly detailed descriptions of how this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture created its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction, comics, costumes, and remixes, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, this groundbreaking collection provides fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.

Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism. --- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism. --- Fans (Persons). --- Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-. --- Popular culture -- Japan. --- Popular culture -- Japanese influences. --- Subculture -- Japan. --- Fans (Persons) --- Mass media and culture --- Subculture --- Popular culture --- Animated films --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Sociology & Social History --- Journalism & Communications --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Recreation & Sports --- Communication & Mass Media --- J4143 --- J5960 --- J6848 --- Comic strips --- Comics --- Funnies --- Manga (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhua (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhwa (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Serial picture books --- Subcultures --- Culture and mass media --- Aficionados --- Devotees --- Enthusiasts (Fans) --- Supporters (Persons) --- Japanese influences --- History and criticism --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose -- manga --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- anime --- E-books --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Wit and humor, Pictorial --- Culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Social groups --- Counterculture --- Persons --- Hobbyists --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism --- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism --- Japan -- Civilization -- 1945 --- -Popular culture -- Japan --- Popular culture -- Japanese influences --- Subculture -- Japan --- Animated cartoons (Motion pictures) --- Animated videos --- Cartoons, Animated (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture cartoons --- Moving-picture cartoons --- Motion pictures --- Abstract films --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Animation cels --- Japanese influences. --- History and criticism. --- Japan --- Civilization --- Subculture. --- Manhua (Comic books) --- Manhwa (Comic books)

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The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan's enthusiastic engagement with mobile technology has become -- along with anime, manga, and sushi -- part of its trendsetting popular culture. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, the first book-length English-language treatment of mobile communication use in Japan, covers the transformation of keitai from business tool to personal device for communication and play. The essays in this groundbreaking collection document the emergence, incorporation, and domestication of mobile communications in a wide range of social practices and institutions. The book first considers the social, cultural, and historical context of keitai development, including its beginnings in youth pager use in the early 1990s. It then discusses the virtually seamless integration of keitai use into everyday life, contrasting it to the more escapist character of Internet use on the PC. Other essays suggest that the use of mobile communication reinforces ties between close friends and family, producing "tele-cocooning" by tight-knit social groups. The book also discusses mobile phone manners and examines keitai use by copier technicians, multitasking housewives, and school children. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian describes a mobile universe in which networked relations are a pervasive and persistent fixture of everyday life.

Technology --- Cell phones. --- Social aspects --- Mobile phones --- Japanese life --- Cell telephones --- Cellphones --- Cellular phones --- Cellular radio --- Cellular telephones --- Mobiles (Telephones) --- Phones, Cell --- Telephones, Cell --- Wireless phones --- Radio --- Telephone --- Transmitter-receivers --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General --- COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Global Studies --- Cell phones --- J4126 --- J4484 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- media and (mass) communications --- Japan: Economy and industry -- communication -- telephony --- Technologie --- Téléphone cellulaire --- Aspect social

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Maatschappijkritiek --- Cultuurbeleid