danah boyd! Perhaps not what you're looking for but resources that might lead you in the right direction Tracy Holloway, Sarah L. & Gill Valentine (2003). Cyberkids: children in the information age. New York: Routledge Falmer. Sharon R. Mazzarella (ed) (2005). Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity. Peter Lang. Dan Verton (2002). The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers. California: McGraw-Hill. Valentine, G. and Holloway, S.L. (2002) 'Cyberkids? Exploring children's identities and social networks in on-line and off-line worlds' Annals, Association of American Geographers, 92, 302-319. Guy Merchant (2001). Teenagers in Cyberspace: an investigation of language use and language change in internet chatrooms. Journal of Research in Reading, 24 (3), pp 293-306. Rebecca Grinter & Leysia Palen (2002). Instant Messaging in Teen Life. CSCW Conference Paper Ronald Davie et al (2004). Mobile phone ownership and usage among pre-adolescents. Telematics and Informatics, 21, pp 359-373. Mizuko Ito - "Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth and the Re-Placement of Social Contact" Crispin Thurlow (2003) Generation Txt? The sociolinguistics of young people's text-messaging. Discourse Analysis Online. http://www.shu.ac.uk/daol/articles/v1/n1/a3/thurlow2002003-paper.html David A. Huffaker Sandra L. Calvert - Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html David Huffaker (2004). Spinning Yarns around the Digital Fire: Storytelling and Dialogue among Youth on the Internet. Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, pp 63-75. M.D. Griffiths, Mark N.O. Davies & Darren Chappell (2004).Online computer gaming: a comparison of adolescent and adult gamers. Journal of Adolescence, 27, pp 87-96. Lalita K. Suzuki & Jerel P. Calzob (2004). The search for peer advice in cyberspace: An examination of online teen bulletin boards about health and sexuality. Applied Developmental Psychology, Vol 25, pp 685-698. Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Patricia M. Greenfield & Brendesha Tynes (2004). Constructing sexuality and identity in an online teen chat room. Applied Developmental Psychology, Vol 25, pp 651-666. Kimberly J. Mitchell, David Finkelhor, Janis Wolak (2003). The Exposure of Youth To Unwanted Sexual Material on The Internet A National Survey Of Risk, Impact, And Prevention. Youth & Society, 34 (3), pp 330-358. Brian Wilson & Michael Atkinson (2005). Rave and Straightedge, the Virtual and the Real: Exploring Online and Offline Experiences in Canadian Youth Subcultures Youth & Society, Vol. 36 No. 3, March, pp 276-311. Kathryn Montgomery (2000). Youth and Digital Media: A Policy Research Agenda. Journal of Adolescent Health, 27, pp 61-68. ..|::.|.::|::.|.::|..|::.|.::|::.|.::|.. |::.|.::|::.|.::|..|::.|.::|::.|.::|.. Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology University of Toronto Course Instructor Dept of Communications, Popular Culture & Film Brock University Research Coordinator NetLab University of Toronto Second Life: Professor Tracy ..|::.|.::|::.|.::|..|::.|.::|::.|.::|.. |::.|.::|::.|.::|..|::.|.::|::.|.::|.. Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:17:56 -0800 From: "Tina Matuchniak @UCI" <tmatuchn@uci.edu> Subject: [Air-L] American Youth's Differential Use of New Media To: "AIR Listserve" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Message-ID: <D68ECA477F944ACF8713C3B1968C9629@tinalaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I am a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, currently working on a project about use of new media (SNS, games, video production, etc.) amongst youth. I was wondering if someone could point me to any studies on American youth's differential use (by gender, race, SES etc.) of new media. Thank you for your time, Tina Matuchniak Graduate Student Department of Education University of California, Irvine