Expert Profile
Mimi Ito
Professor in Residence Informatics
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to media.
Areas of Expertise
- Media and Communications
- Anthropology
- Children/Video Games
- Technology
Biography
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to media and communications. She recently completed a research project supported by the MacArthur Foundation a three year ethnographic study of kid-initiated and peer-based forms of engagement with new media. In 2008, she was awarded the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies from the American Educational Research Association.
Media
Media Appearances
Can You Hide a Child’s Face From A.I.?
The New York Times, 10/14/2023
The underdiscussed upsides of screen time for kids
Desert News, 3/24/2022
Meet the teens making the digital world a kinder and gentler place
CNN, 11/12/2021
How Has Social Media Impacted Our Mental Health?
Gizmodo, 8/16/2021
Instagram For Kids Could Work If Done Right, Experts Say
Lifewire, 3/24/2021
How Three Nonprofits Are Connecting Kids With Diverse Mentors During the Pandemic
EdSurge, 3/10/2021
It's A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One
NPR, 10/31/2019
Articles
Observational evidence of supercooling and frazil ice formation throughout the water column in a coastal polynya in the Sea of Okhotsk
Continental Shelf Research, 1/1/1970
Environmentally Friendly Syntheses of Imines Applying the Pressure Reduction Technique: Reaction Cases of Less Reactive Amines and Studies by Computational Chemistry
Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 1/1/1970
Online article for Non-subscribers
Heterocycles, 1/1/1970
Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage in a case with anti-RNA polymerase III antibody-positive systemic sclerosis successfully treated with plasma exchange and corticosteroid therapy
Modern Rheumatology Case Reports, 1/1/1970
Favorable conditions for suspension freezing in an Arctic coastal polynya
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 1/1/1970
Education
Stanford University
PhD, Anthropology, 2003
Stanford University
PhD, Education, 1998
Stanford University
MA, Anthropology, 1991
Accomplishments
- Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research