{"id":169,"date":"2012-02-27T06:13:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2015-12-14T03:19:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:19:37","slug":"youth-and-digital-media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/projects\/youth-and-digital-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth and Digital Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0186d1\">Global Digital Youth (Harvard University and Oxford University) since 2009.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThis project is an ethnography focusing on cross-cultural research into youth and digital media in the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan. Through an examination of youth engagement with digital technologies in everyday life, this research investigates the implications of social and cultural issues such as identity, digital literacy, creativity, and opportunities and risks in the global world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"book\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2011\/05\/Essay-Collection_v3-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-512\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2011\/05\/Essay-Collection_v3-2-300x129.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2011\/05\/Essay-Collection_v3-2-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2011\/05\/Essay-Collection_v3-2-1024x440.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u2606Takahashi, T. (2016)\u201cCreating the Self in the Digital Age: Young People and Mobile Social Media\u201d\u00a0In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalasiahub.org\/about-us\/\">Digital Asia Hub<\/a>\u00a0(ed.)\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Digital Good Life in Asia\u2019s 21st Century\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0Hong Kong.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2011\/05\/Creating-the-Self-Takahashi-2016.pdf\">[PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666\">\u2606Takahashi, T. (2011) Japanese Youth and Mobile Media. In Thomas, M (ed.) Deconstructing Digital Natives. NY and London: Routledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0186d1\">New Media Literacy 2010~2011<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThe aim of this project is to expand the scope of \u201cmedia literacy\u201d in the mass media age into \u201cnew media literacies\u201d in the current digital age. In the digital age, children and young people engage with multiple media such as mobile phones, the internet, digital television and game consoles in their everyday lives. Through their media engagement, they face new types of opportunities and risks. This research examines multiple dimensions of new media literacies in both US and UK contexts.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666\"><br \/>\n\u2606Takahashi, T. (2011) <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #666666\">New Media Literacies in the Digital Age: cross-cultural research from US and UK<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #666666\">Yoshida Hideo Memorial Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0186d1\">Cross-media and Mobile Phones 2009\u301c2011<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nMobile phones are no longer merely telephones \u2013 they are a convergence of various digital media such as the internet, television, a digital camera, a video camera and many other utilities. This project investigates youth engagement with mobile phones in everyday life in the cross-media age in both Japan and the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0186d1\">Digital Natives 2007~2008<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThis research builds on the two concepts of \u201cDigital Natives\u201d and \u201cDigital Immigrants\u201d &#8211; the former are young people born into contemporary digital society. They have always been surrounded by digital media such as cell phones and the internet. The latter are the older generation who were introduced into the digital world in their later lives. John Palfrey, professor at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, studied how young people use the new digital media in their daily lives in the global context. Refering to his study and others, we use a sample of university students to conduct our own quantitative research into the lives of Digital Natives in Japan.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666\"><br \/>\n\u2606Takahashi, T., Honda, K and Terashima, T (2008) A study on Digital Natives and Audience Engagement: Results of a Quantitative Study on College Students and Media. <em>Applied Sociology 50.<\/em> Rikkyo University. (in Japanese)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0186d1\">Social Networking Sites 2007~2009<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nMuch has been written about how Social Networking Sites (SNS) have provided new avenues for self-expression, connectivity and \u2018self-creation\u2019 among young people. However, little attention has been paid to geographical and cultural variables. This project takes up the Japanese case by analysing how its youths engage with SNS, such as MySpace and Mixi through an ethnography of Japanese youths living in the media-rich Tokyo Metropolitan Area.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666\"><br \/>\n\u2606Takahashi, T. (2009) MySpace or Mixi? Japanese Engagement with SNS (Social Networking Sites) in the Global Age. <em><span style=\"color: #666666\">New Media and Society<\/span><\/em>, vol.12, No.3, pp. 453-475.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666\"><br \/>\n\u2606Takahashi, T.\u3000(2009) Digital Natives and Everyday Life: Ethnography on Japanese Youths\u2019 Engagement with SNS. <em><span style=\"color: #666666\">The Japan Society of Information and Communication Research<\/span><\/em> 92:15-28. (in Japanese)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666\">\u2606Takahashi, T. (ed.) (2008)<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #666666\">Comparative Research on Children and Young People and Information Media: Survey on College Students and Digital Media.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #666666\"> The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation. (in Japanese)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0186d1\">Children and Media 2005~2006<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThe aim of this project is to consider how Japanese children and young people engage with media and ICT amidst the current social and cultural changes in Japanese society in the face of globalisation. Drawing on my ethnographic research on \u2018audience engagement\u2019 in Japan, this study addresses cultural specificities and commonalities between Japanese and Western childhood media, whilst offering insights from a non-Western perspective, a move which I hope will contribute towards an internationalisation of media studies.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666\"><br \/>\n\u2606Takahashi, T. (2008) \u201cJapanese Young People, Media and Everyday Life: Towards the Internationalizing Media Studies\u201d. In K. Drotner and S. Livingstone (eds) <em><span style=\"color: #666666\">International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture.<\/span><\/em> London: Sage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Digital Youth (Harvard University and Oxford University) since 2009. This project is an ethnography focusing on cross-cultural research into youth and digital media in the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan. 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