Mimi Ito
Professor in Residence Informatics UC Irvine
- Irvine CA
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to media.
Media
Social
Biography
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research
2008
Education
Stanford University
PhD
Anthropology
2003
Stanford University
PhD
Education
1998
Stanford University
MA
Anthropology
1991
Links
Media Appearances
Apodaca: Communication is key to navigating next-wave technology
Daily Pilot online
2026-03-25
UC Irvine Professor Mizuko “Mimi” Ito, a cultural anthropologist of technology use and the author of a series of highly influential books on the topic, points out that the focus should be less on the technology itself and more on the ways we interact with it. “What we do know from research is that as long as the kids are in the context of stable families and situations, they’ll be fine.”
LABS: Denzel Curry and Dr. Mimi Ito on Anime Culture
Talkhouse (Sing for Science) radio
2024-07-13
Recorded Live at the Anime Station store in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles on July 13, 2024, rapper Denzel Curry talks with UC Irvine cultural anthropologist Dr. Mimi Ito about his relationship to anime and anime culture in Japan and abroad. We discuss Mimi’s research that tracked how manga and anime grew from just a Japanese export to a global phenomenon.
Can You Hide a Child’s Face From A.I.?
The New York Times online
2023-10-14
Mimi Ito, [professor in residence], a cultural anthropologist and director of the Connected Learning Lab at the University of California, Irvine, said facial recognition technology makes the otherwise joyful sharing of children’s photos online more challenging. “There’s a growing awareness that with A.I., we don’t really have control of all the data that we’re spewing into the social media ecosystem,” she said.
The underdiscussed upsides of screen time for kids
Desert News online
2022-03-24
When they get involved in online communities or learn to run Youtube channels and blogs and make content, adolescents learn skills that will help them survive in the digital world later on, says Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist of technology use at the University of California, Irvine. These activities have a “real-worldness to it that they never get to experience through school safe assignments,” she says. “They’re getting real authentic feedback from communities.”
Meet the teens making the digital world a kinder and gentler place
CNN online
2021-11-12
Families can encourage a better human experience for kids by moving away from the quantity conversation and toward establishing quality, said Mimi Ito, director of the Connected Learning Lab at University of California Irvine and cofounder of Connected Camps who is also part of HX. There are a number of questions parents can ask themselves to determine if their kid — and each kid is different — is experiencing quality.
Articles
Favorable conditions for suspension freezing in an Arctic coastal polynya
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans2019
Arctic sea ice incorporates and transports sediment, releasing it back into the water column during the melting season. This process constitutes an important aspect of marine sediment transport and biogeochemical cycling. Sediment incorporation into sea ice is considered to occur mainly through underwater interaction between frazil ice and resuspended sediment, referred to as suspension freezing.
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 Reports2020
A 63-year-old woman was admitted because of diffuse alveolar haemorrhage complicated with systemic sclerosis. High anti-RNA polymerase III (RNAP III) antibody titre was detected despite normal blood pressure and renal function. Antibodies other than anti-RNAP III antibody were negative.
Online article for Non-subscribers
Heterocycles2020
Nosyl annulation of a bithiophene derivative with nosylamide (NsNH 2) gives a 5-7-5 fused N, S-heterocyclic compound. The detailed molecular structure of the obtained nosylamide was analyzed by single-crystal X-ray crystallography.
Environmentally Friendly Syntheses of Imines Applying the Pressure Reduction Technique: Reaction Cases of Less Reactive Amines and Studies by Computational Chemistry
Green and Sustainable Chemistry2020
Recently, the development of environmentally friendly syntheses of imine derivatives, which were attracting great attention for their reactivity and structure in various fields, progressed rapidly because the concept of green chemistry had deeply penetrated into society. In our previous work, we had reported new synthetic methods of imine derivatives using some active amines under solvent- and catalyst-free reaction conditions.
Observational evidence of supercooling and frazil ice formation throughout the water column in a coastal polynya in the Sea of Okhotsk
Continental Shelf Research2020
This paper examines underwater frazil ice formation in a coastal polynya. In a coastal polynya, the seawater near the ocean surface can become supercooled due to intense atmospheric cooling. Supercooled water sinks deeper under turbulent conditions, resulting in frazil ice formation in the water column.
