Hi Tina. My colleagues and I conducted a study of 1722 middle school students in Maryland. We have a manuscript forthcoming at New Media & Society looking at gender differences in mobile phone usage among middle school students and several others that are in process at the moment (some focusing on gender and some on race - most looking at a variety of types of technology usage). I'm also in the process of conducting a study of over 1,000 4th and 5th graders in Birmingham, Alabama before they receive their XO laptops and then following up approximately 6 months later. Students are over 90% African American in the sample. No manuscripts yet, but we have great data on all kinds of technology use! Someone at Michigan State has also done a study with youth, looking at racial and perhaps gender differences in technology usage. Can't recall the name at this time. Can you tell me more about your project? Good luck. Shelia ******************************** Shelia R. Cotten, PhD Associate Professor Dept. of Sociology UAB Birmingham, AL 205-934-8678 cotten@uab.edu ------------------------------ Message: 2 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