Digital Young

I read regularly Mimi Ito’s blog. She is an extraordinary cultural anthropologist. She’s Japanese and she researched for a long time digital practices in youth culture. I first met her work four years ago, when started to research SMS practices and I was looking for people with similar interests. I was glad to see that this subject was really taken very serious into consideration and also very seriously researched, because in my country this subject is not considered to be worth to be researched, due its apparent futility. I only not find the confirmation for my madness, but I also got scientific help in order to see how similar subjects were treated in anthropology.

Her blog is a very helpful resource, she also has a lot of documents in pdf with her articles, for which I think she is a great person because, unlike an intellectual, she really wants to popularize her ideas and to give the possibility for scholars to read what she wrote, without being constrained to buy the articles.

Her interest are the new media uses; you will really find some intros or more deep perspectives of anime uses, Purikura uses, camera phones uses etc. Just click on publications category and you can read there about what interests you.