”Dude, That’s My Space!”

DISCUSSANT: HORST, Heather

ABSTRACT: The public prominence of social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook and media attention to the "effects" of violent video games and mobile phone use
have put these technologies at the forefront of contentious national debates. Advocating a kid-driven perspective on new media influenced by the resurgence of childhood
studies in anthropology, we explore how young people use, share, create with, interact with, and perceive digital technologies in their day-to-day lives.

Session Participants:
TRIPP. Lisa (Florida State University)
HOST, Heather (University of California, Berkeley)
YARDI, Sarita (Georgia Institute of Technology)
LANGE, Patricia (Annenberg Center for Communication | University of Southern California)

Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.