http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives Berkman investigators, fellows, research assistants and interns sound off about all things Digital Natives Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:33:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Risky Behaviors and Online Safety track of Harvard University Berkman Center's Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative is creating a Compendium of youth-based Internet safety programs and interventions. We are requesting organizations, institutions, and individuals working in online youth safety to share descriptions of their effective programs ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/11/19/work-with-an-effective-youth-based-internet-safety-program-the-youth-and-media-policy-group-wants-to-know-about-it/ The Berkman Center is looking for an intern for its Youth Policy Working Group. The Working Group is part of the Berkman Center's Digital Natives initiative, which studies how young people interact with digital media. The Youth Policy Working Group specifically seeks to draft policy prescriptions around three areas of ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/11/03/youth-policy-research-positions-with-danah-boyd-john-palfrey-and-urs-gasser/ [gallery] "If we hope to head towards a bright future in the digital age, then, it begins with preparing Digital Natives and other young kids to help lead the way." To be sure, the term “Digital Native” is misleading, because no two Digital Natives are created equal. Each of them has varying ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/10/22/minds-for-the-future-why-digital-immersion-matters/ Black text on a white background reads “Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.” Below, in all caps: “Congratulations! Your parents just joined Facebook. Your life is officially over.” The site is myparentsjoinedfacebook.com, a collaborative portfolio of social doom. In the grand instatradition of thematic tumblelogs (see: ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/05/18/my-parents-joined-facebook-personalized-clubhouses-and-divergent-social-norms-online/ A couple weeks ago, I participated (read: lurked) in a project called FOCUS: Cross-Generational Voices on Digital Media and Society, sponsored by Global Kids, Common Sense Media, and The GoodPlay Project. Having evolved from previous years' FOCUS projects aimed to create dialogue between teenagers about their online experiences (a white ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/05/15/the-future-of-digital-natives-dialogue/ Recently, Geocities announced that they would be shutting down their services later in 2009. In my history on the Web (I'm graduating college this May, if that provides perspective), this is a significant event for Digital Natives. At least, for the older Digital Natives. Growing up on the Internet in middle ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/04/26/living-and-dying-on-geocities/ Cross-posted from the CSN Blog Today’s kids can’t imagine a life without Google or Wikipedia. These young people are already starting to enter the work force. What happens when Enterprise 2.0 meets Born Digital? I’ll be speaking at the CSN Conference about a generation growing up online: what sets ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/04/20/urs-gasser-at-csn-conference-in-amsterdam/ “Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphone user,” seemed sensational even for the usually grandiose titles of TEDTalks, but I found myself nodding to Renny Gleeson’s every word. If you haven’t watched this video yet, I highly recommend it. At only three minutes, it’s shorter than the usually TED video ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/04/17/availability-and-obligation-using-technology-the-right-way/ This week, we got some pretty exciting news: turns out Kevin Guidry, a PhD student and teacher at Indiana University, is using Born Digital as a major text in his undergraduate class on Online Identity! This is exciting for a couple of reasons. First, it's always a rush to hear ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/04/14/born-digital-goes-to-college/ Just got word from Alex Leavitt that the podcast from our panel at SXSW is now up! SXSW Podcast: Blackboards or Backchannels: The Techno-Induced Classroom of Tomorrow While tending to my inbox tonight, I put this on in the background and was excited to hear a few cogent themes emerge through the ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/04/08/digital-natives-sxsw-podcast/