[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 54, Issue 8

[Shelia Cotten]

Hi Tina. My colleagues and I conducted a study of 1722 middle school
students in Maryland. We have a manuscript forthcoming at New Media &
Society looking at gender differences in mobile phone usage among middle
school students and several others that are in process at the moment
(some focusing on gender and some on race - most looking at a variety of
types of technology usage).

I'm also in the process of conducting a study of over 1,000 4th and 5th
graders in Birmingham, Alabama before they receive their XO laptops and
then following up approximately 6 months later. Students are over 90%
African American in the sample. No manuscripts yet, but we have great
data on all kinds of technology use!

Someone at Michigan State has also done a study with youth, looking at
racial and perhaps gender differences in technology usage. Can't recall
the name at this time.

Can you tell me more about your project?

Good luck.

Shelia

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Shelia R. Cotten, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Sociology
UAB
Birmingham, AL
205-934-8678
cotten at uab.edu


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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:17:56 -0800
From: "Tina Matuchniak @UCI" <tmatuchn at uci.edu>
Subject: [Air-L] American Youth's Differential Use of New Media
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Hello,

I am a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine,
currently working on a project about use of new media (SNS, games, video
production, etc.) amongst youth.

I was wondering if someone could point me to any studies on American
youth's differential use (by gender, race, SES etc.) of new media.

Thank you for your time,

Tina Matuchniak
Graduate Student
Department of Education
University of California, Irvine