Research Series on Digital Media and Learning
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically.
Thanks to the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation, open access electronic versions of all the DML Book Series and DML Research Reports are available for download from the our partners at the MIT Press.
Despite a long history of scholarship and attention in the press, research on digital media and youth has tended to divide along traditional disciplinary lines. A key goal of this project will be to catalyze conversations and networking across divided communities. Essays will capture the original thinking that emerges from the collaboration of disciplines such as cognitive science, linguistics, communications, media studies, developmental psychology, education policy, and game studies. It is our expectation that these volumes will serve not only as a seminal corpus for new scholarship, but as a demonstration of the potential of new educational approaches for the developers of digital media.