Symbiotic Learning Partnerships in Youth Action Sports

• In Event: 66.057 - Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: 66.057-9 - Exploring Time, Place, and Space With Digital Media

Abstract

Through an ethnographic study of youth media production in action sports, this paper analyzes the symbiotic partnerships formed between teen skateboarders and videographers necessary to collaboratively demonstrate mastery of both tricks and video capture/editing. This collaborative mastery is illustrated through a focus on the cycles of reflection and nurture that skaters and videographers enter into when honing their respective crafts. In the end, this paper advances understanding of youth digital media production in the rich, yet understudied, action sports community, drawing out potential implications for the design of digital media learning settings that promote equal educational opportunity for youth, as per the conference theme, through an overt focus on symbiotic learning partnerships.

Author

• Ty Hollett, The Pennsylvania State University