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Introduction: The MonCoin Project

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In this chapter, Castro sets the stage for the edited volume by outlining the scope of the MonCoin project, a 8-year study of using mobile media inside and outside of the art classroom. Contextualized in the current literature on the underlying cultural condition of mobile and social media use by teens and adolescents, Castro charts the arc of the MonCoin project’s origins and development. He discusses the overarching sociomaterial theoretical frameworks of complexity, actor-network theory, and the MonCoin curriculum used in the study. This introductory chapter concludes with a description of design-based research and an overview of the following chapters and the organization of the book.

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Castro, J.C. (2019). Introduction: The MonCoin Project. In: Castro, J. (eds) Mobile Media In and Outside of the Art Classroom. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25316-5_1

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