I have noted some of my key quotations from Final Report, Media Ecologies. They may not be key for you, but they might be in the future. Or you could contribute to the conversation by sending me your link to your key quotations, and I can post it here.

Enjoy, as just one perspective on this important work

Ecologies
We use the metaphor of “ecology” to emphasize the characteristics of an overall technical, social, cultural, and place–based system, in which the components are not decomposable or separable. The everyday practices of youth, existing structural conditions, infrastructures of place, and technologies are all dynamically interrelated; the meanings, uses, functions, flows, and interconnections in young people’s everyday lives located in particular settings are also situated within young people’s wider media ecologies. We also take an ecological approach in understanding youth culture and practice. As we have suggested in the case of interest-driven and friendship-driven participation, these are not unique social and cultural worlds operating with their own internal logic, but rather these forms of participation are defined in relation and in opposition to one another. Similarly, we see adults and kids’ cultural worlds as dynamically co-constituted, as are different locations that youth navigate such as school, after-school, home, and online places. The three genres of participation that we introduce in this chapter—“hanging out,” “messing around,” and “geeking out”—are also genres that are defined relationally. The notion of participation genre enables us to emphasize the relational dimensions of how subcultures and mainstream cultures are defined; it also allows us to use an emergent, flexible, and interpretive rubric for framing certain forms of practice.