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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Digital Media and Learning Conference: Designing Learning Futures 2011
Published By S. Craig Watkins On September 15th 2010. Under Uncategorized
This week the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at the University of California at Irvine announced the Second Annual Digital Media and Learning Conference, Designing Learning Futures 2011.
Here is ... 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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Mobile Teens: The Microsoft Kin Makes a Bid For Young Mobiles
Published By S. Craig Watkins On April 13th 2010. Under Mobile, News, Research, Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Teens and Technology
One of the most frequent questions I use to get from parents of teenagers about two or three years ago went something like this: "Should I get my child a ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital Interview w/MacArthur Foundation Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
Published By S. Craig Watkins On March 5th 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Research, Social Media, Teens and Technology, Young Adults and Technology
In a follow-up to a recent set of events I did an interview with the MacArthur Foundation Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning. Here's an excerpt.
As the digital divide closes, ... Read More
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Writing Visually: YouTube, New Media Literacy, and the College Admissions Race
This week I'm addressing a big education planners group and I've been thinking about what I'm going to say. I plan to make a case for why more educators ... Read More
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