Rebekah Willett, Lecturer in Education
Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media
Institute of Education, University of London
http://www.childrenyouthandmediacentre.co.uk
Three Expertise Keywords:
gender, identity, production
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Why Digital Media and Learning?
I am interested in how young people appropriate, use, recontextualise and make sense of their changing media landscapes.
Recent Posts:
- Rebekah Willett: Commodified Identities? (December 13, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
My current work is on amateur camcorder use, analysing different ‘camcorder cultures’, their social networks, styles of learning and integration of camcorder cultures into households.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Poofy Dresses and Big Guns: A poststructuralist analysis of gendered positioning through talk amongst friends. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 27, 4.
Buckingham, D. and Willett, R. (Eds.) (2006). Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
‘Baddies’ in the classroom: Media education and narrative writing. Literacy, 39, 3: 142-148.
