Mizuko Ito, Research Scientist
University of California, Irvine
http://www.uci.edu
Three Expertise Keywords:
ethnography, learning-theory, new-media
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Recent Posts:
- Mizuko Ito: Working with New Media (December 11, 2008)
- Ito and Bittanti: Genres of Gaming Practice (December 4, 2008)
- Mizuko Ito: Digital Youth Project Findings (November 20, 2008)
- Mimi Ito: Launching the Futures of Learning Blog (September 26, 2008)
- Ito & Goldberg: A Digital Media and Learning Networked Studio (May 27, 2008)
- Mimi Ito: 24/7: A DIY Video Summit (February 4, 2008)
- Mimi Ito: Digital Youth are a Diverse Lot (November 13, 2006)
- Mimi Ito: Kids and Commercial Culture (October 26, 2006)
- Mimi Ito: Do young people really take “naturally” to digital media? (October 23, 2006)
- Mimi Ito: Reflections on the MacArthur launch (October 20, 2006)
- Mimi Ito: Learning with digital media involves more than “educational technology.” (October 18, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She has recently completed a research project supported by the MacArthur Foundation, “Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media,” a three year ethnographic study of kid-initiated and peer-based forms of engagement with new media. She is also conducting ongoing research on Japanese technoculture, and is currently studying online fans of anime and editing a book on otaku culture. Her work on mobile phone us in Japan appears in a book she co-edited with Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda, Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. She is a Research Scientist at the University of California Irvine, and a Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University in Japan. In 2008, she was awarded the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies from the American Educational Research Association.
