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Nativi Digitali, Immigranti Digitali, Richiedenti asilo Digitali. La rivoluzione culturale
22-24 Giugno 2010 - Sibiu, Romania
Digital media and the internet have transformed the way young people learn, play, socialize, and even participate in civic life. Children today have access to media, be it through their computers, mobile phones or mp3 players, much more readily than their parents ever could; while at the same time, digital technologies facilitate young people's creation of media environments which their parents find particularly difficult to perceive or understand, and from which they are effectively excluded.
Obviously, such developments are not to be blamed on new media alone.
Even before John Perry Barlow's suggestive metaphor on 'digital natives' and digital immigrants', back in 1995, there was an obvious
We therefore invite papers from educators and researchers from all areas of humanities that describe, document, and analyse various forms of engagement, in inter-generational contexts and family settings, of youth and (older) adults with digital environments and how they relate to various forms of social and cultural capital. We are also looking forward to accounts of challenges and obstacles which encourage or inhibit engagement to various online environments and their specific cultures, as well as of successful intervention strategies and pedagogical processes enabling (older) adults to exploit the opportunities for learning, playing, socializing, and participating supported by digital media.
Such papers are to be submitted to one of the following sections:
* Learning
* Playing
* Socializing
* Participating
Papers should
The proceedings of the conference and a select number of papers will be published.
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