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 danah
boyd, PhD., co-author of
Hanging Out, Messing Around,
Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media
audio of her afternoon presentation to the
7th and 8th grades (1 hour 13
MB/mp3, may stream)
audio of her evening presentation to parents (1 1/2 hour,
21 MB/mp3, may
stream)
streaming video of her evening presentation to parents (WJHS
site)
Written summary of danah boyd's talk (pdf)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009,
7 pm, Wilmette Junior High School
The rapid adoption of social network sites by teenagers raises some
important questions. Why do teenagers flock to these sites? What are they
expressing on them? How do these sites fit into their lives? What are they
learning from their participation? Are these online activities like
face-to-face friendships – or are they different, or complementary?
In a rare Chicago-area public appearance, danah boyd, Ph.D., a Social
Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, a Fellow at Harvard
University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and an
internationally recognized authority on the ways adolescents use networked
social media, will bring insight and deep understanding of youth media culture
to help frame the answers to these questions. Dubbed the “high priestess of
online social networks” by the Financial Times, Dr. boyd was a lead researcher
on a recently completed 3-year MacArthur Foundation study of digital
youth, incorporating the insights of over 800 youth and young adults and over
5000 hours of online observations, the results of which will be published in
book form by MIT Press this fall, with the same title as this presentation. In
2008, Dr. boyd was a co-director of the Berkman Center’s Internet Safety
Technical Task Force, which was convened jointly by MySpace and 49
State Attorneys General, to consider technologies that can help keep
children safe on the Internet. An electrifying speaker, Dr. boyd will expand
your thinking about the Internet.
Co-sponsored by Wilmette Junior High School PTO, this is the kick-off
event in a quarterly series of events for parents and their teens regarding
Internet use. The presentation is free and open to the public; Dr. boyd will
speak to the WJHS students and faculty in the afternoon. CPDUs available for
education and health professionals. FAN is grateful for its 2009-2010 exclusive
media sponsorship by MakeItBetter.net.
The evening presentation was attended by 367 enthusiastic parents and
community members.
Read a question-and-answer session with danah on
makeitbetter.net
danah boyd will also be the opening speaker
at the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival on March 13 in Austin, Texas!
Web
links:
www.danah.org
Wikipedia page
Financial Times
profile (2006)
video/audio links:
Aspen Institute 2008 - myspace and facebook and MMRPG (2:58 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IggLtIDp7sk
Anthropologist of the online community Danah Boyd discusses ways young people
use social network sites to connect with their friends and present themselves
online.
Interview with Business Week about social networks (3:16 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWCKmh6aTII
danah boyd discussed her research on teenagers and their patterns of using
social media at the 2009 Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with
Technology. (40 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmoc9F6fceQ
flyers and press releases:
media/boydRelease.pdf
media/danahboydflyer.pdf
danah boyd flyer with howard gardner
mention.pdf
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