Developmental Digital Technologies in Human History, Culture, and Well-Being
Special Topic Issue: Human Development 2019, Vol. 62, No. 1-2
Developmental Digital Technologies in Human History, Culture, and Well-Being
Special Topic Issue: Human Development 2019, Vol. 62, No. 1-2
This special issue of Human Development offers theoretical and empirical studies of the ways that technologies - digital and otherwise - structure learning and development within cultural practices. The papers expand our conception of affordances of technologies for broader development goals than simplistic technocratic goals. Studies include a historical analysis of impacts of technology in structuring both individual and community development. There is longitudinal documentation of the evolution of the design of overlapping ecological systems in a midwestern city to expand opportunities for taking up digital tools for problem solving at the level of individual and community development. An empirical study of the design of a digital tool to support narrative sensemaking among child refugees acts as a resource for understanding children's perceptions of their re-settlement experiences. A study of the uptake of video game playing in a social design-based experiment examines how such digital tools invite imaginative play that, in this design, support inter-generational problem solving and identity development among Latinx youth, families, and college-aged mentors.
| ISBN | 9783318064841 |
|---|---|
| Article number | 9783318064841 |
| Media type | Book |
| Copyright year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Karger |
| Length | 100 pages |
| Illustrations | 10 fig., 6 in color |
| Language | English |
