Public/Private Divides and the Appropriation of New Media in Classrooms and Digital Domains

• In Event: 63.084 - Roundtable Session 22
  In Roundtable Session: 63.084-10 - High School Writers in Linguistically Diverse Contexts

Abstract

Young people’s participation with new media is characterized by belonging and participation in what Ito (2008) calls “networked publics”. These digitally mediated contexts for interaction link online and offline worlds and provide spaces for constructing identities and for hanging out free from adult supervision (boyd, 2008). Mediating between the public and private affordances of new media within so called networked publics presents a challenge for appropriating these tools in schools. I argue that new media has ushered changes to the landscape of learning “in-school” and “out-of-school” that can benefit from applying Gal’s (2002) approach to investigating the evolving fractal recursivity that emerges in the construction of public and private spaces.

Author

• Lisa Hope Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder