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  1. Aug 2021
    1. One of the most common ways that kids hang out together with media is listening to music,

      All of my friends share a love of similar music taste! I'm also a huge music geek, so I put them on a lot of music!

    2. Michelle listens to music around the house while hanging out in her room or doing chores and when she is in the car riding around with her mom.

      I love listening to music while cleaning my room, it makes the chore a lot more fun. It gives me a lot more energy and I always end up getting it done quicker when there's music on.

    3. In chapter 5 we describe how friend-ships built through playing together become a source of technical expertise that often extend beyond game-specifi c interests.

      as much as I hate to admit it, some of my best friends in elementary school were from my Xbox 360.

    4. “geeking out.”

      We talked about this in class! I also think it's so interesting to see the specific things that people geek out about. Because, everybody does, whether they'll admit what they geek out about or not.

    5. Online sites, forums, and search engines augment existing information resources by lowering the barriers to looking around in ways that do not require specialized knowledge to begin.

      People may cringe when I say this but TikTok is actually a great place to find useful information on a wide range of topics, as long as it's actually backed by resaerch.

    6. Clarissa’s stories involve themes of fantasy, triumph, and escape. Her character Saloria, for instance, grew up in a poor neighborhood and was raised by a “loving community” rather than a nuclear family. As a teen, Saloria leaves this community to seek her fortune in the wider world

      I feel like a lot of artists, innovators, and musicians come from poor backgrounds and have this same desire to seek something in a wider world and break out of their barriers. To be able to go somewhere further than their neighborhood. Because of this, these people run wild with their ideas and end up changing the world with them, once they got to that wider world.

    7. there has been a rapid growth of TV-show viewing on YouTube

      YouTube TV is not that huge, though. I feel like a lot of people still use cable. If you have a firestick or a Roku, however, YouTube TV pretty much is the cable tv of that device if that makes sense. It looks a lot like Direct TV's software.

    8. coordinates hanging out with friends and her girlfriend through MySpace

      I feel liike MySpace wqas the gateway to what we now know social media as. It's kind of crazy in my opinion.

    9. While quantitative studies (see box 1.1) can help us situate an individual’s media engagement with specifi c media and technologies, we provide an ethno-graphic accounting of shared practices and cultural categories that structure youth new media participation.

      This sounds cool