Digital Divides & Digital Literacies: An Ongoing Report
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 1st 2011. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Research, Social Media, Technology + Education
Earlier this week National Public Radio's "Tell Me More" aired a conversation that I shared with Tony Cox about the digital divide. We talked about the ways in which the ... Read More
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Social Movements in the Age of Social Media: Participatory Politics in Egypt
Published By S. Craig Watkins On February 18th 2011. Under News, Politics and Social Media, Young Adults and Technology
In the wake of the uprising that shook up Egypt and ended the thirty year regime of Hosni Mubarak a growing debate around the role of social media has ensued. ... Read More
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Defining Social Behavior Outward: Some Thoughts on the New York Times Piece About Our Facebook Study
Published By S. Craig Watkins On February 3rd 2011. Under News, Research, Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Young Adults and Technology
The New York Times' Pamela Paul writes about our Facebook study in her Sunday bi-weekly column, Studied. Her piece, Does Facebook Make Someone Social Offline?, considers one of the main ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital in PC World
Published By S. Craig Watkins On January 19th 2011. Under Book, Mobile, News, Social Media, Social Networking Sites
Last year my editor in Boston notified me that Western Washington University had selected The Young and the Digital for its Western Reads program. I learned that all new incoming ... Read More
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Gurl Power: How the Young and the Digital Are Remaking the Pop Music Landscape
Published By S. Craig Watkins On September 23rd 2010. Under Digital Music, News, Teens and Technology
This week NPR's Morning Edition ran an interesting feature on Lukasz Gottwald (you can listen here). Odds are you do not know who he is but if you listen to ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital on NPR’s Tell Me More-With Michel Martin
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 23rd 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Teens and Technology, Uncategorized
This week the NPR program Tell Me More- with Michel Martin did a two-part segment titled, What Digital Divide? The stories were a response to the growing evidence that black ... Read More
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Understanding the Mobile Lives of Black and Latino Youth
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 12th 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Social Media, Teens and Technology
Over the last few weeks I've been speaking with various researchers, journalists, and industry about some of the remarkable shifts that are happening in the mobile space. While much of ... Read More
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Twitterball II: LeBron James, Social Media and the New Culture of Pro Sport
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 9th 2010. Under News, Social Media, Sports and Social Media, Young Adults and Technology
In the middle of the biggest decision of his young professional life LeBron James showed up on Twitter of all places. During the week James had invited his friend, New ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital: The London Review of Books
Published By S. Craig Watkins On June 14th 2010. Under Book, News, Social Media, Social Networking Sites
The Young and the Digital is part of a group of books reviewed by Harvard's Stephen Burt in the London Review of Books. Here's an excerpt from what is ... Read More
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Homemade Hip Hop: How the Young and the Digital Are Remaking the Hip Hop Experience
Published By S. Craig Watkins On April 24th 2010. Under Digital Music, News, Social Media, Teens and Technology
Recently I came across an article from Billboard, the music industry trade publication, by Antony Bruno titled, “Late Registration” (this is not the full article). The article is about Boston-based ... Read More
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