Schooling new media: music, language, and technology in children's culture

'Schooling New Media' is an ethnography of children's music and media consumption practices at a small elementary and middle school in Vermont.

It examines how transformations in music technologies influence the way children, their peers, and adults relate to one another in school.

Focusing especially on digital music devices-MP3 players-it reveals the key role of intimate, face-to-face relationships in structuring children's uses of music technologies.