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Review of Montgomery, Generation Digital

Posted on March 31, 2009 | Leave a comment

My review of Kathryn Montgomery’s Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet is up at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, along with a response from Montgomery. RCCS, by the way, is a tremendous resource for book reviews — David Silver does a great job getting multiple reviews of interesting books and most of the time even including author responses. Wonderful stuff.  

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MACSEM 2008 Panel: “Children, music, and media in the contemporary US”

Posted on June 13, 2008 | Leave a comment

In March Jenny Woodruff and I organized a panel at the annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of SEM, on “Children, music, and media in the contemporary US,” which included papers by Sarah Snyder and Jenny Johnson. It was a rare chance (hopefully more and more in the near future) to bring together some of scholars who have recently been opening up new doors for ethnomusicological study of kids, media, and popular music consumption.

Abstracts after the jump.

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Consumption studies conference

Posted on June 13, 2008 | Leave a comment

At the end of July I’ll be participating in a conference on the “Contested Terrain of Consumption Studies,” hosted by the Consumer Studies Research Network, in Boston, presenting research on kids and media consumption from my dissertation.

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Paper for SEM 2008 panel: “Media consumption as social organization in a New England primary school”

Posted on June 13, 2008 | Leave a comment

My contribution to the panel mentioned in the last post will be a paper titled “Media consumption as social organization in a New England primary school.” (I’m really happy with the allusion to Goodwin’s He Said She Said, but I really need to start writing more explanatory titles.) Abstract after the jump.

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SEM 2008 Panel: “Techniques of consumption: Rethinking kids and commercial music”

Posted on June 13, 2008 | Leave a comment

Jenny Woodruff and I have organized a panel children as consumers of pop music for the 2008 meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. It’s called “Techniques of consumption: Rethinking kids and commercial music.” Andrea Emberly will also present a paper, and Charlie Keil has agreed to serve as the discussant. Abstract after the jump.

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Is this thing on?

Posted on May 26, 2008 | Leave a comment

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I am an ethnomusicologist at Columbia University. My research looks at children’s music, digital technology, and kids’ peer culture in school. My dissertation is an ethnographic study of the media ecology of K–8 schoolchildren at a small, rural, public school in New England, focusing on digital and portable media practices, and I’ve lately been writing more about the tween music industry.

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