Dr Rebekah Willett is Lecturer in Education on the MA in Media, Cultureand Communication and the MA in ICT at the Institute of Education. Sheis a member of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media;and is a co-Investigator on an AHRC-funded project, CHILDREN’SPLAYGROUND GAMES AND SONGS IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE (Beyond TextProgramme). 

Dr Rebekah Willett is Lecturer in Education on the MA in Media, Culture and Communication and the MA in ICT at the Institute of Education. She is a member of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media; and is a co-Investigator on an AHRC-funded project, CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND GAMES AND SONGS IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE (Beyond Text Programme). 

She was the lead researcher on a 3-year AHRC-funded project entitled, 'Camcorder Cultures: Media Technologies and Everyday Creativity' which was based at the London Knowledge Lab. Her research interests include media cultures, literacy and gender. She has worked as a primary school teacher as well as a researcher. Projects she has worked on include 'Shared Spaces: Informal Learning and Digital Cultures' and a European media education project focusing on the internet. She has published work on new media pedagogies, Pokemon, Internet risk, children's story writing, chatrooms and tweenage girls and the internet. Rebekah can be contacted at r.willett [at] ioe.ac.uk.

Selected publications:

Buckingham, D., Willett, R. and Pini, M. (forthcoming) Home Truths?
Video Production and Domestic Life. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Buckingham, D. and Willett, R. (eds.) (forthcoming) Video Practices: Media Technology and Amateur Creativity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Willett, R. (forthcoming) Young people’s video productions as new sites of learning. In V. Carrington and M. Robinson (eds). Contentious Technologies: Digital Literacies, Social Learning and Classroom Practices. Sage.

Willett, R., Robinson, M. and Marsh, J. (eds) (2008) Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures. London: Routledge. Chapters by R. Willett include ‘Encountering Play and Creativity in Everyday Life’; ‘Consumption, Production and Online Identities: Amateur spoofs on YouTube’; and ‘Conclusion’.

Willett, R. (2008) Consumer Citizens Online: Structure, agency and gender in online participation. In D. Buckingham (ed.) Youth, Identity and Digital Media. MIT Press. Pp.49-70. Open access edition available at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/dmal/-/6

Willett, R. (2008) ‘What you wear tells a lot about you’: Girls dress up online. Gender and Education. Volume 20 Issue 5, 421-434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540250701797242

Willett, R. (2007). Technology, Pedagogy and Digital Production: A Case Study of Children Learning New Media Skills. Learning Media and Technology. 32,2:167-181.

Willett, R. (2007). Consuming Fashion and Producing Meaning through Online Paper Dolls. In Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon (eds) Growing up online: Children and technology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp.170-192.

Willett, R. (2006). Poofy Dresses and Big Guns: A poststructuralist analysis of gendered positioning through talk amongst friends. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 27, 4: 441-445.

Willett, R. (2005). ‘Baddies’ in the classroom: Media education and narrative writing. Literacy, 39, 3: 142-148.
 

Naomi Hamer - Examining Multi-modal Tween Literature

Jo Henderson - Interface between amateur production UK cultural industries

Daniel Cuzner - History of amateur film and video production

Maria Lambrianidou - An ethnographic approach to children’s consumer identities: exploring childhood and consumerism in Greece