Introduction: Connecting conversations about technology, learning, and identity / Cynthia Carter Ching and Brian J. Foley -- Introduction part I. Developmental perspectives / Cynthia Carter Ching -- "This is me": digital photo journals and young children's technologies of the self / Cynthia Carter Ching and X. Christine Wang -- Digital storytelling and authoring identity / Alan Davis and Daniel Weinshenker -- Building identities as experts: youth learning in an urban after-school space / Carol Cuthbertson Thompson and Lisa Bouillion Diaz -- Positive technological development: the multifaceted nature of youth technology use toward improving self and society / Marina Bers, Alicia Doyle-Lynch, and Clement Chau -- Introduction part II. Identities unleashed / Brian J. Foley -- "You can make friends easier on a boy face": identity play and learning in a multiuser virtual environment / Brian J. Foley ... [et al.] -- Deleting the male gaze? Tech-savvy girls and new femininities in secondary school classrooms / Claire Charles -- Affiliation in the enactment of fan identity: a comparison of virtual and face-to-face settings / Caroline Pelletier and Natasha Whiteman -- Navigating life as an avatar: the shifting identities-in-practice of a girl player in a tween virtual world / Deborah A. Fields and Yasmin B. Kafai