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    Studying Young People's New Media Use:

    Methodological Shifts and EducationalInnovationsC. J.Pascoe

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    Department of Sociology , Colorado CollegePublished online: 05 Apr 2012.

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    Theory Into Practice, 51:7682, 2012

    Copyright The College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University

    ISSN: 0040-5841 print/1543-0421 online

    DOI: 10.1080/00405841.2012.662862

    C. J. Pascoe

    Studying Young Peoples NewMedia Use: Methodological Shifts

    and Educational Innovations

    A lack of good information about what youth are

    doing with new media stimulates fears and hopes

    about the relationship between young people and

    digital technologies. This article focuses on new

    modes of inquiry into youth new media use,

    highlighting the challenges, complexities, and

    opportunities inherent in studying young peoples

    digital cultures. It outlines methodological issues

    unique to studies of youth and new media, such

    as accessing populations of respondents, benefits

    and drawbacks to online qualitative research,

    and challenges in capturing a snapshot of youngpeoples actual, not self-reported, media prac-

    tices. This type of qualitative research on youth

    media cultures and practices can guide educators

    who are developing pedagogy and policy that

    C. J. Pascoe is an Assistant Professor in the Depart-

    ment of Sociology at Colorado College.

    Correspondence should be addressed to C. J.

    Pascoe, Colorado College, Department of Sociology,

    14 E. Cache la Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.E-mail: [email protected]

    integrate young peoples mediated practices into

    the educational process.

    CONTEMPORARY YOUTH CULTURES have

    been shaped by, and are shaping, the use

    of new media. Parents, educators and those who

    work with youth are struggling to catch up with

    young peoples orientations, practices, and ideas

    about digital technology. These adult constituen-cies are simultaneously fearful of the effects new

    media have on youth and are eager to harness

    the power of digital technology for the learning

    process (Alvermann, 2004). Parents, for instance,

    want their children to take advantage of the

    opportunities afforded by new modes of commu-

    nication while they also attempt to shield young

    people from known and unknown dangers lurking

    therein (Wang, Bianchi, & Raley, 2005). As such,

    schools and educators often impose restrictions

    on digital media use, fearing students mediatedpractices might impair the learning process or

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    put them at risk of victimization. A lack of

    good information about what youth are actually

    doing with new media often stimulates these

    fears and hopes. This article suggests specific

    approaches through which researchers and prac-titioners might gather information about young

    peoples mediated practices. Armed with good

    information about these practices parents, educa-

    tors and those who work with youth might be

    able to make decisions about how to incorporate,

    or not, new media into educational settings.

    Gathering data on young peoples technology

    use has proven somewhat challenging, given that

    emerging technologies can complicate traditional

    research methods (Hine, 2005). As a result, someresearch methodologies need to be rethought to

    incorporate mediated communication practices

    (Mallan, Singh, & Giardina, 2010; Standlee,

    Garcia, Bechkoff, & Cui, 2009). One of the most

    fruitful avenues of research into new media use

    is the use of new media itself as a tool of inquiry

    (Heath et al., 2009; Moinian, 2006). Researchers,

    for instance, are marshalling technologies like

    instant messaging for interviews or deploying

    mobile phones to replace pen-and-paper notes for

    diary studies. Using digital technology in theseways solves some of the problems researchers

    might encounter in conducting qualitative studies

    of young peoples new media use, as well as

    poses new ones. For example, using new media

    can expand the purview of traditional methods by

    transcending geographic limitations, facilitating

    access to populations of respondents that are not

    easily accessible, saving costs, and possibly al-

    lowing researchers to investigate sensitive topics

    that might be difficult to cover in offline environ-ments (Heath, Brooks, Cleaver, & Ireland, 2009;

    Mann & Stewart, 2000). However, the process

    of researching young peoples new media use

    also raises structural, ethical, and methodological

    concerns.

    This article briefly discusses four modes of

    investigating young peoples new media prac-

    tices: performing content analysis, conducting

    interviews, negotiating access, and carrying out

    ethnography. Using these techniques to gather

    information about how young people use technol-ogy in their everyday lives, practitioners might

    be able to incorporate the informal learning

    (Ito et al., 2009, p. 65) that happens through

    technology use into formal pedagogy in effective

    ways that feel authentic to learners.

    New Methods for New Media

    Gathering data on new media use requires

    some rethinking of qualitative methods. This re-

    thinking can help to alleviate some of the current

    struggles qualitative researchers encounter when

    studying youth. Researchers often have difficulty

    accessing populations of youth to research nat-uralistically outside of an institutional setting.

    Ongoing contact with young people also poses a

    difficulty for the qualitative researcher. Research

    subjects under the age of 18 are, rightly so,

    considered by institutional review boards as a

    vulnerable population and require more stringent

    protections in research protocols.

    AccessMediated environments such as social network

    sites, blogs, or bulletin boards allow researchers

    to contact youth outside of formal institutions. A

    researcher can send a young person a call for par-

    ticipation and he or she can post it on his or her

    wall or forward it to a group of friends, some of

    whom he or she may know intimately and some

    of whom he or she may know only tangentially.

    The Internet also provides a way for a young

    person to find a researcher. The researcher canadvertise in a variety of online venues that young

    people visit, such as social network sites, bulletin

    boards, or blogs, especially if he or she is looking

    to target a population who may be interested in

    specific topics, activities, or identities. In these

    ways, new media allow researchers to circumvent

    institutional barriers that can serve as gatekeepers

    to young people.

    The same technology that helps researchers

    navigate around institutional barriers also pro-

    vides youth a way to transcend restrictions ontheir mobility. Cell phones, instant messaging

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    technology, and social network sites are all pri-

    vate lines of communication in which a partic-

    ular youth can engage, even if that particular

    young person is bound to the home (because

    of curfews, lack of transportation, and the like).One researcher, for instance, reported spending

    an evening on IM with a 13-year-old respondent

    because she was not allowed to leave the house at

    night but was allowed to participate in an online

    interview (Ito et al., 2009). When thinking about

    issues of access, new media provides opportu-

    nities for researchers to navigate an age-graded

    society that often separates adults and children

    by providing new channels of communication.

    Content Analysis

    A main problem researchers encounter when

    studying young peoples new media practices is

    that these technologies are so woven into the

    fabric of young peoples daily lives that they

    forget that they are actually using it. Fortunately,

    new media archives its own use, making invisible

    moments of use visible. In this sense, respon-

    dents computers, cell phones, Web browsers,and social network profiles can themselves be

    technological artifacts on which a researcher can

    perform content analysis. Although a researcher

    may not always be with a given respondent while

    he or she engages in technological practices,

    viewing these archives can bring to life those

    private and often forgotten moments.

    Mobile phones, for instance, are such a part

    of young peoples everyday lives that it is often

    difficult for a respondent to elaborate on its use.A researcher can use the phone itself as digital

    artifact, asking respondents to scroll through the

    information stored in their phones to provide

    insight into their communication practices (Horst

    & Miller, 2006). When looking at call logs,

    text messages, and photos stored in respondents

    phones, researchers can ask a series of questions

    about who the respondent called, what they

    talked about, who they were with during the call,

    and what they were doing when they received

    or made a call. Through asking these types ofquestions, a researcher can learn not just about

    technological practice, but the context of that

    practice.

    A researcher might do something similar

    with an instant messaging program, by scrolling

    through archived discussions. In fact, at the be-ginning of a research project, a researcher might

    consider asking youth to begin archiving their

    instant messages so that he or she can ask about

    them in an interview.

    Because over half of American young people

    have a social network site presence (Lenhart,

    Purcell, Smith, & Zickuhr, 2010), these sites

    are also fruitful archives of young peoples so-

    cial lives. On a given social network profile, a

    respondent may list his or her friends, have arecord of wall posts, display videos, and the like.

    These sites can provide information about the

    way in which new media may or may not be

    a part of his or her social world. These sites

    can show the researcher what is important to a

    given respondent, allow the researcher to inquire

    as to specific events memorialized on these sites,

    and shed light on the relationships played out

    over such sites. In walking through a site with a

    respondent, an interviewer gets a story not just

    about the respondents life but about the role newmedia plays in it.

    The Web browser itself can be a glimpse

    into the often private world of new media use.

    Much like a researcher might request to see a

    respondents cell phone call logs, he or she might

    also ask to see a respondents browser history.

    Researchers can ask respondents to guide them

    through their favorite Web sites. The discussion

    around this history and the pages respondents

    visit can reveal much about a respondents dailyuse of the Internet.

    Interviews

    Digital communication technologies also en-

    able new interviewing strategies. E-mail, instant

    messaging, texting, and Skype-like programs can

    all be used to facilitate interviews. These tech-

    nologies allow researchers to modify traditional

    interview techniques by addressing challenges

    such as young peoples physical immobility, theirdistance from the interviewer, or the difficulty

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    of accessing a dispersed population. There are

    some drawbacks to these types of mediated

    interviews. Although there are ways to convey

    affect in online environments (Kazmer & Xie,

    2008), researchers may lose some of the physical,interpersonal interaction upon which interviewers

    rely to build rapport and craft the interview.

    However, there is some evidence that participants

    engage in higher levels of personal disclosure

    online (Joinson, 2005; Walther, 1996), which

    might mitigate the lack of physical cues.

    New media technologies can also be used to

    rework traditional diary studies. These studies

    provide a wealth of concrete detail that can get

    lost in more traditional forms of interviews. Inone study, respondents were given a cell phone

    with a camera and asked to use it to document

    every time they used a piece of technology for

    a 48-hour period (Ito et al., 2009). Respondents

    sent a message to the researcher including a pic-

    ture of the technology, a description of what they

    were doing with it, how long they did it, and who

    else was with them. Researchers followed each

    diary study with a face-to-face interview in which

    they discussed each diary item. These studies

    provide micro-level detail about how young peo-ple use technology in their daily lives that would

    have been difficult for researchers to access in

    any other way. Diary studies, quite simply, give

    researchers glimpses in to the private spaces

    to which they cannot go. This approach often

    helps in the endeavor of making the invisible

    visible, reminding respondents of those mundane

    moments of technology use about which they

    might have otherwise forgotten.

    Ethnography

    Ethnographic research methods are currently

    being expanded to include and address mediated

    venues (Robinson & Schulz, 2009). These online

    environments allow researchers to take advantage

    of the continuous contact and always-on (Baron,

    2008) possibilities of new media.

    Instant messaging, text messages, social net-

    work site communication, and bulletin board

    posts all provide a form of constant contact thatmight be used as part of new media ethnography.

    Instant messaging programs provide opportuni-

    ties to engage in real time chats in an ongoing

    fashion. Both the researcher and respondent can

    remain in casual frequent contact in the same

    way they could if the researcher were doingparticipant observation in the respondents daily

    world. Text messages can work much the same

    way, and perhaps might be even a more fruitful

    research practice given the prominent role of

    text messaging in many young peoples lives.

    Although both instant messaging and text mes-

    sages can be used to conduct formal interviews,

    ethnographically they can also function much

    like informal conversations in a physical research

    site. In fact, while researching young peoplestechnology use, I carried out some of my most

    interesting conversations with young people over

    instant messaging, long after the formal interview

    was over, as we chatted about daily life and

    current events or they shared stories they thought

    I might find interesting.

    Social network sites and message boards are

    online venues where researchers can hang out,

    much like they might in a physical research site.

    On social network sites, researchers can friend

    their respondents and see what they are doingonline on a daily basis. These observations might

    also provide data to talk about in a follow-

    ing interview. Message boards provide a similar

    function, a window into youth social worlds that

    might not otherwise be available.

    It should be noted, however, that most in-

    stitutional review boards are not yet equipped

    to review these online ethnographic techniques

    and researchers may have to educate their own

    institutions as to the ethics of these sorts ofresearch practices.

    New Challenges for New Media

    Using new media to study technology use

    can allow unprecedented access to youth and to

    intimate parts of young peoples lives. In many

    ways, this is a boon to social media researchers.

    However, these methods raise questions aboutmethodological, ethical, and structural concerns.

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    Methodologically, researchers need to be

    aware of the projection of adult use of new media

    on to young peoples practices and orientations.

    That is, adults cannot assume that youth use

    technology as adult designers intended or inthe same way adults do. Adults, for instance,

    might assume there is a digital world and a

    real world, and that the former is inferior to

    the latter. For most youth, mediated practices

    are not some sort of alternative reality, but an

    extension of their everyday interactions (Mackay,

    2005).

    Second, young people may use and view cer-

    tain technological forms differently than adults

    do. E-mail, a mainstay of adult workplace com-munication and sociality, is used less frequently

    by young people, except in formal instances

    (such as contacting a professor) as they prefer

    to text or message on a social network site

    (Lenhart, Madden, Rankin Macgill, & Smith,

    2007). Adult researchers need to keep in mind

    that young people might espouse different per-

    spectives on these technologies than adults do

    (Cosaro, 1997).

    Third, adults often see the Internet as a dan-

    gerous space (Richman, 2007). Researchers needto be aware of their assumptions about safety

    and danger as they forge ahead in this area of

    research.

    Researching young peoples new media use

    also raises several ethical concerns. These medi-

    ated communication technologies challenge re-

    searchers ability to maintain a boundary be-

    tween their public and private lives (Robinson

    & Schulz, 2009). The same technologies that

    circumvent adult guardians of youth may alsotranscend the researchers personal boundaries.

    For instance, researchers need to think seriously

    about whether or not to friend the youth they

    are researching. Doing so allows researchers

    ongoing contact with respondents, but also may

    allow respondents to learn private information

    about researchers. Similarly, researchers should

    consider whether or not to share mobile phone

    numbers. Such availability can, again, provide

    ongoing contact, but opens up a venue for poten-

    tial abuse. It is not that these types of boundarytransgressions do not appear in offline research

    (Pascoe, 2007); new media use might facilitate

    such transgressions. Thus, researchers need to

    address how the very technology that has made

    it easier to access youth also comes with a new

    set of challenges regarding boundaries betweenthe researcher and the researched.

    Ethically, it is also important to think about the

    presence of the fieldworker in deidentified online

    spaces. Does a researcher need to announce his

    or her presence in an online discussion group

    (Rutter, Smith, & Kollock, 2005)? If the group is

    a private one? If it is publically available? Some

    argue that lurking might be considered ethical;

    others claim that the researcher always needs to

    announce himself or herself (Robinson & Schulz,2009).

    These ethical quandaries need to be addressed

    by institutional review boards where there is

    currently an absence of ethical guidelines that

    specifically address Internet research (Richman,

    2007, p. 183). Although not specifically ad-

    dressing youth, the Association of Internet Re-

    searchers is attempting to clarify research ethics

    of online research behavior that may be found

    on their Web site (Robinson & Schulz, 2009).

    Following suit, institutional review boards alsoneed to address, more directly, the challenges that

    accompany qualitative research of new media and

    youth. These boards often work off the implicit

    assumption that youth are contained in certain

    institutions, but, as this article has demonstrated,

    these institutions may be rendered less salient

    due to new communication technologies. On-

    line research raises questions of age verifica-

    tion, parental consent, and levels of contact. If

    researchers do solicit online participation, howis one supposed to verify a given respondents

    age? How do we know their parents are sign-

    ing scanned consent forms? Indeed, one of the

    drawbacks of new media is that we cannot verify

    who people are (Heath et al., 2009). The level

    of contact between respondent and researcher

    might be much more frequent and less formal

    than in offline environments. Institutional review

    boards need to develop guidelines around ethi-

    cal standards of qualitative online research with

    youth by attending to some of these uniquechallenges.

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    New Practices With New Media

    New strategies of qualitative research are nec-

    essary to study youth new media use because,

    by knowing what young people are doing withtechnology, practitioners will be able to reframe

    the current discourse about technology use in

    educational settings. Rather than understanding

    new media as solely a threat to the educational

    process, practitioners reframe new media as an

    important part of what researchers call informal

    learning (Ito et al., 2009, p. 65). That is, as

    youth are texting, writing blogs, updating social

    network sites, or playing games, they are not just

    playing, but are actually engaging in a learningprocess (Ito et al., 2009). Upon first glance,

    this informal learning process may be clouded

    by the moral panic that often accompanies new

    technologiesthus the need for good qualitative

    research on young peoples practices.

    Building on the idea that young people learn

    through mediated practices, educators have

    begun to incorporate these practices into more

    formal educational processes. One of the more

    innovative examples of this approach might

    be the Quest to Learn public school in NewYork City, where the curriculum is centered

    around games and game-inspired methods (Salen,

    Torres, Wolozin, Rufo-Tepper, & Shapiro, 2010).

    Although reorienting an entire curriculum around

    a specific type of technological practice is not

    necessarily feasible or desirable for most schools,

    the idea that games may be an important learning

    tool is one that can be integrated on a smaller

    scale in particular classroom projects. As Katynka

    Martinezs (2007) work demonstrates, games canbe important in the development of literacy skills.

    Knowing how youth use new media as part

    of their everyday lives can help practitioners

    incorporate technology in ways that feel authen-

    tic to learners. However, practitioners must first

    know what young people are doing in mediated

    environments. Knowing, for instance, that some

    young people spend their free time writing fan-

    fiction as a member of an online community,

    or dedicate evenings to writing long, involved

    role plays with peers across the world (Ito et al.,2009), might inspire teachers to think in new

    and creative ways about how to get students to

    think about the writing process as one that can

    be fun, collaborative, and peer oriented. Practi-

    tioners looking to integrate new media into their

    pedagogy in ways that reflect young peoplesinformal use can draw on findings presented

    in the MacArthur Foundations Digital Media

    and Learning Initiative and the book Teaching

    Tech Savvy Kids (Parker, 2010). Both of these

    draw on qualitative research studies of young

    peoples new media use to develop suggestions

    for ways educators might use technology in their

    pedagogy. By drawing on this type of research,

    rather than banning sites that deal with particular

    topics, social network or blogging sites, schoolsand administrators might use data on youth new

    media cultures to develop thoughtful and mea-

    sured strategies that keep youth safe while in-

    tegrating these new communication technologies

    in classroom settings in ways that feel authentic

    for young people.

    Conclusion

    Much of the discussion around youth andnew media use frames technology as a threat to

    learning: Youth are texting during class. Youth

    no longer have a sufficient attention span. Youth

    have lost the ability to write because texting

    has replaced real English for them. Qualitative

    research of youth new media use can place these

    fears in context, rather than letting them drive

    educational practice regarding technology.

    Studying youth is no easy task for a variety

    of reasonsaccess, ethical concerns, and thecontemporary understandings of age. Studying

    their new media use both solves and throws into

    relief some of these issues. Using new media

    to research young peoples technology use can

    help researchers circumvent institutional barriers,

    keep tabs on youth, chronicle easily forgettable

    behavior, and provide, in many ways, documen-

    tation of young peoples daily lives. However,

    it also comes with its own set of challenges

    lack of IRB understanding, adult preconceptions

    about new media, and a lack of clear ethicalguidelines.

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    In spite of these obstacles, performing re-

    search on youth media cultures and practices can

    help educators develop pedagogy that integrates

    young peoples mediated worlds. By knowing

    how, when, what, where, and with whom youthuse technology, practitioners can note the ways

    in which media actually does interfere with the

    learning process (not just ways they fear it does)

    and devise creative ways to integrate media into

    the learning process.

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