Youth Digital Cultural Consumption and Education

Authors

Monica Pini
Sandra I. Musanti, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Teresa Cerratto Pargma

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

Media and technological devices function as socializing agents during children’s leisure and entertainment time. Drawing from the theory of cultural consumption, a socio educational approach to students’ digital practices, and media literacy, this qualitative study seeks to explore and describe students’ cultural consumption profile. The authors explore the representations and meanings of digital practices of public school students of a predominately working class neighborhood situated in the periphery of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Findings highlight different aspects of youth cultural consumption profile. Two themes were identified: a) children use computers for a multiplicity of different activities enacting multitasking practices; and b) children develop new forms of digital practices for social digital interaction that are expressed in the “need” to be connected, the production and use of shared codes and the establishment of ambivalent relations with social media platforms. Implications for education are explored.

Recommended Citation

Pini, Mónica, Sandra I. Musanti, and Teresa Cerratto Pargman. "Digital cultural consumption and education." Designs for Learning 7.2 (2014): 58-79. doi.org/10.2478/dfl-2014-0063

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Publication Title

Designs for Learning

DOI

10.2478/dfl-2014-0063