This paper focuses on the challenges digital ethnography faces when analyzing specific mobile mediated

everyday practices that are part of children and youth cultures. The use of digital tools requires

transforming research activities from a double perspective. Firstly, because children and adolescent

practices are mediated by mobile communication tools that allow them to participate in online environments

combined with their everyday offline scenarios. Secondly, the Internet and other digital technologies

provide new analytical tools that interact with developmental and literacy theories and even transform the

basic principles of traditional methodologies such as ethnography. We explore the methodological

challenges taking our own research as an example. We focus on eleven workshops which took place in a

community center and more specifically on Nadia, one of the nine-year-old girls who participated on those

workshops. Focusing on the use of multimodal discourses we adopt the concepts of internal and external

grammars of digital discourses and adopt several units of analysis (from macro to micro perspectives) to

explore those.