For those of us in academe and libraries the Digital Media and Learning initiative has just announced the online release of "Living and Learning With New Media." This three-year project and resulting report is a synthesis of the findings across 22 different case studies by 28 researchers and research collaborators. The MacArthur Foundation funded the project. Teenagers were observed and interviewed to study their interactions. From a report in the Chronicle of Higher education: “'Youth could benefit from educators being more open to forms of experimentation and social exploration that are generally not characteristic of educational institutions',” the authors write." There will be a book released by MIT Press next year and there are countless links on the Digital Youth Website. See -- Chronicle of Higher Education,November 20, 2008, "Report on Youth and New Media Pokes at Educational Institutions," by Lisa Guernsey.
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3475/report-on-youth-and-new-me... .
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/