Danah Boyd, "Literacy: Are Today's Youth Digital Natives?'"

Background on Boyd & her book

Some background on Boyd: her homepage, blog, twitter feed, social bookmarks (on delicious), wikipedia page
The text we are reading is a chapter from Boyd's book, It's Complicated: the Social lives of Networked Teens."
Boyd has made the text freely available online as a .pdf (what does that tell us about the author and her attitude to her work?)

Boyd talk to Leo Laporte about how the idea of 'Digital Natives' is a misnomer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0k-Rx4sht8 (4 minutes)
Boyd talks to UW Comm undergraduate Austin Williams about her book, "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvR2EFXRYU (12 minutes)
Marc Prensky (often credited with coining the term “digital natives”) explains digital natives to PBS interviewer on Frontline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGQLTHyRG_g
Two talks that show how widespread the terms “digital natives” and digital immigrants” are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_9gI0B4nS4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRQdAOrqvGg (shows existence and popularity of the term ‘digital native’)
Do "Digital Natives" Exist? Idea Channel, PBS Digital Studios. Fun entertaining video that echoes many of Boyd’s claims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVKBAqjHiE
Boyd cites the influential work of Tarleton Gillespie on the politics of algorithms.
This 5 minute interview of Gillespie by an undergraduate spells out some main ideas of his work in an accessible way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cT1i1_Nydw