To analyze the behavior of young Americans in the network, MacArthur Foundation has funded a research study treinnale Digital Youth Project which was also attended by the well-known cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. The report, published in November 2009, is extremely interesting to see how the young approach to technology and helps to dispel many misconceptions and common alarms also fomented by the media that tend to paint the new generation of digital natives as asocial, devoted to practices unnecessary if not harmful.
Basically the authors of the research have identified three different types of activities that children engage the network: "hanging out" which consists involvement in social activities, the "messing around" with regard to testing with games, network technology and the less experienced and "Geeking out" or technological interest in specific issues and the creation of communities of interest from technology experts .
In this relationship while also having a most comprehensive book titled "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking out."
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