TY - JOUR
T1 - Youth identities as remixers in an online community of storytellers
T2 - Attitudes, strategies, and values
AU - Ahn, June
AU - Subramaniam, Mega
AU - Fleischmann, Kenneth R.
AU - Waugh, Amanda
AU - Walsh, Greg
AU - Druin, Allison
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In today's media-rich world, youths are not merely consumers, but also active creators of information. Digital tools allow authors to more easily remix and copy previous works. These new media practices have brought issues of appropriation, copyright, privacy, information behavior, and information literacy to the forefront. In this paper, we present a case study of a hybrid online and offline community of middle school students designed to help them develop identities as scientists through storytelling. The case illuminates the complex issues of appropriation andremix that arise when youths create, share, copy, and adapt their peers' media artifacts. Our analysis then highlights how youths, who are evolving as information literate individuals, identify with (a) attitudes towards information appropriation, (b) strategies of remix, and (c) the underlying values that motivate their ideas about remix practices.
AB - In today's media-rich world, youths are not merely consumers, but also active creators of information. Digital tools allow authors to more easily remix and copy previous works. These new media practices have brought issues of appropriation, copyright, privacy, information behavior, and information literacy to the forefront. In this paper, we present a case study of a hybrid online and offline community of middle school students designed to help them develop identities as scientists through storytelling. The case illuminates the complex issues of appropriation andremix that arise when youths create, share, copy, and adapt their peers' media artifacts. Our analysis then highlights how youths, who are evolving as information literate individuals, identify with (a) attitudes towards information appropriation, (b) strategies of remix, and (c) the underlying values that motivate their ideas about remix practices.
KW - Appropriation
KW - Human values
KW - Information behavior
KW - Information literacy
KW - Libraries
KW - Participatory culture
KW - Remixing
KW - Youths
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U2 - 10.1002/meet.14504901089
DO - 10.1002/meet.14504901089
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878605693
SN - 1550-8390
VL - 49
JO - Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting
JF - Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting
IS - 1
ER -