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Thoughts on Pew’s Latest Report on Teens: Notable Findings on Race and Privacy
By danah boyd May 22, 2013 - 5:20pm Comments
Thoughts on Pew’s Latest Report: Notable Findings on Race and Privacy Blog Image Yesterday, Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about “Teens, Social Media, and Privacy.” As a researcher who’s been in the trenches on these topics for a long time now, none of their finding surprised me but it still gives me absolute delight when our data is so beautifully in synch. I... more

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Revisiting Techno-euphoria
By Nishant Shah 07/05/2012 - 3:10pm Comments
In my last post, I talked about techno-euphoria as a condition that seems to mark much of our discourse around digital technologies and the promise of the future. The euphoria, as I had suggested, manifests itself either as a utopian view of...
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Back to the Drawing Board
By Liz Losh 07/03/2012 - 7:10am Comments
For people on the academic calendar, resolutions tend to be undertaken in the summer months rather than at the start of the new year in January.  This summer I am picking up a pencil and rethinking my relationship to visual...
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George Couros: Why School Administrators Should Embrace the Social Web
By Howard Rheingold 06/28/2012 - 10:15am Comments
By encouraging administrators to become learner-leaders, to use social media to connect with each other, share best practices and experiment, Canadian school principal George Couros is leading by example, exhortation, and instigation the people...
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The Challenge of Teaching Networked Writing
By John Jones 06/25/2012 - 9:05am Comments
In my last post I wrote about what Derek Mueller calls the "digital underlife," the writing practices of students that fall below the radar of classroom practice, but which are crucial ways in which these students practice literacy. In...
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Should We Fear Children Accessing Facebook?
By 06/21/2012 - 2:50pm Comments
In recent months, there has been an intense media and policy vortex surrounding the questions of when and how children – especially those under 13 – should gain access to popular online sites like Facebook. The outcome of these cultural and...
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On the Importance of Webmaking
By Doug Belshaw 06/19/2012 - 9:40am Comments
I’ve come to realize over the last couple of years just how important the Open Web is for online innovation. It’s a standards-based platform that allows anyone to use relatively low-cost technologies to connect things and people together in new...
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Learning from Kony 2012
By Liz Losh 06/14/2012 - 6:00am Comments
In March of this year, as I taught my winter lecture class that focuses on Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online, I began to receive urgent e-mails from students about a viral video produced by a group called Invisible Children,...
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PortoAlegre.cc: Giving A City Back to Its Citizens
By Raquel Recuero 06/11/2012 - 3:15pm Comments
Several new projects are trying to use cyberspace as a platform to help citizens build an information network and share information about their cities. One effort that has achieved significant traction is PortoAlegre.cc, a platform for the...
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Worthy Reads: Mobile Learning, Flipped Lessons, New Media Literacies
By Barry Joseph 06/07/2012 - 10:08am Comments
Fast Company magazine recently featured this article, from design studio Frog’s Fabio Sergio, on how mobile devices will provide learning opportunities for people across age and income spectrums. It offers a nice overview, from a design...
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A Vision for Learning Designed by Youth for Youth: Notice. Dream. Connect. Do. Be.
By monika hardy 06/04/2012 - 7:15am Comments
The basics as defined by school is a very limited and restrictive set of skills. The word basic is often referred to as essential. Essential translates to absolutely necessary or extremely important. This mindset calls our publicly prescribed...
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Pop Culture Criticism as 21st Century Skill
By Michael Lachney 05/31/2012 - 1:35pm Comments
As part of the Digital Youth Network’s (DYN) 2011-2012 professional development, we have set out to explore how critical media literacy can help Chicago middle school students become responsible and savvy digital producers. Through hours of...
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Going Low-Tech to Teach New Literacies
By Liz Losh 05/28/2012 - 9:05am Comments
Ethnic Studies professor Wayne Yang takes a distinctive approach to new media literacies to get UC San Diego students to host their own Comic-Con comic book convention with original graphic novel projects.   Although print artifacts are...
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Social Media and Public Sphere: The #VetaDilma Movement and Brazil's Forests
By Raquel Recuero 05/25/2012 - 5:45pm Comments
Today Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vetoed several parts of a controversial forest bill that had been approved by Brazil’s Congress and promoted by powerful agricultural interests. Until today, it was unclear how President Rousseff would...
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Beyond the Console: Gaming, Learning & Literacy
By Whitney Burke 05/24/2012 - 11:10am Comments
Tanner Higgin is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside studying race, gender, and power in digital media cultures. He's also researching and developing play and project-based curriculum at the nonprofit...
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How and Why to Make Your Digital Publications Matter
By Cathy Davidson 05/21/2012 - 1:00pm Comments
I don’t have the metrics, but I’ll stake my professional reputation on the following  statement:  In the last one or two years, there has been a seachange in how even the most traditional academic, nonprofit, or corporation values,...
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