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dc.contributor.authorIto, Mizuko
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Crystle
dc.contributor.authorPfister, Rachel Cody
dc.contributor.authorRafalow, Matthew H.
dc.contributor.authorSalen, Katie
dc.contributor.authorWortman, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-03T10:12:24Z
dc.date.available2024-04-03T10:12:24Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifierONIX_20240403_9781479888900_193
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89475
dc.description.abstractHow online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people Boyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affinity networks, Affinity Online considers how young people have found new opportunities for expanded learning in the digital age. These cases reveal the shared characteristics and unique cultures and practices of different online affinity networks, and how they support “connected learning”—learning that brings together youth interests, social activity, and accomplishment in civic, academic, and career relevant arenas. Although involvement in online communities is an established fixture of growing up in the networked age, participation in these spaces show how young people are actively taking up new media for their own engaged learning and social development. While providing a wealth of positive examples for how the online world provides new opportunities for learning, the book also examines the ways in which these communities still reproduce inequalities based on gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The book concludes with a set of concrete suggestions for how the positive learning opportunities offered by online communities could be made available to more young people, at school and at home. Affinity Online explores how online practices and networks bridge the divide between in-school and out-of-school learning, finding that online affinity networks are creating new spaces of opportunity for realizing the ideals of connected learning.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesConnected Youth and Digital Futures
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
dc.subject.otherMedia studies
dc.subject.otherPopular culture
dc.titleAffinity Online
dc.title.alternativeHow Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.18574/nyu/9781479888900.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7d95336a-0494-42b2-ad9c-8456b2e29ddc
oapen.relation.isbn9781479888900
oapen.relation.isbn9781479801923
oapen.imprintNYU Press
oapen.series.number2
oapen.place.publicationNew York


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