Schooling New Media

Schooling New Media examines how transformations in music technologies influence the way children, their peers, and adults relate to one another in school. Focusing especially on children's uses of MP3 players, it reveals the key role of intimate, face-to-face relationships in children's uses of music technologies.

Tyler Bickford is Assistant Professor of Children's Literature and Childhood Studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Trained as an ethnomusicologist, his research focuses on the children's music industry and children's own experiences of music, media, and technology.