The formative role played by digital communication in knowledge-based societies is widely
acknowledged. Not least young people's rapid adoption of a variety of social software
applications serves to challenge existing forms of communication for learning since these
innovations allow and assume users' own creation sharing and editing of content. This volume
presents advanced research on digital content creation its socio-cultural contexts and
educational consequences. In the midst of ubiquitous commercial hype about digital innovation
as well as policy concerns the volume offers the sobering perspectives of theory-driven
empirical research in order to examine the complexities highlight the nuances and illuminate
the pedagogical affordances of creative digital contents. This book brings together the work of
an international group of scholars from a range of disciplines including media and ICT studies
education psychology anthropology sociology and cultural studies.
