ABSTRACT
Renee Hobbs: When you hear the phrase, “research on children and media,” what springs to mind?
Joyce Valenza: I think about the rich learning involved when children and teens deconstruct media messages and then construct and create original media. I also think about the infl uence of media on children’s habits and lifestyles, as well as issues relating to corporate infl uence and privacy. Work related to transmedia storytelling and participatory culture come to mind. I think of the work of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), the Digital Media and Learning (DML) Hub-particularly the work of Howard Gardner, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, James Paul Gee, danah boyd, and Cathy Davidson. I also admire the early literacy and technology work of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.
