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Navigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era
By Whitney Burke March 8, 2013 - 10:35am Comments
Navigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era Blog Image Last fall, a New York man rented out his apartment bedroom through Airbnb, a popular website for short-term stays. Unbeknownst to him, he was breaking the law. When he returned to his apartment days later, he was facing more than $40,000 in fines. Airbnb is not legally obligated to post explicit warnings on its site notifying users of the possible legal... more

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When Is an Art Museum a Workshop? A Field Report from Korea
By Cathy Davidson 11/25/2009 - 3:55pm Comments
Earlier this month, I participated in the Digital Natives Workshop hosted by KAIST, the MIT of Korea, and attended by researchers from the U.S. and across the Pacific Rim. My talk on adolescence and the science of attention (entitled “The Kids...
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$2 Million Competition Seeks Ideas to Transform Learning
By Dante Noto 11/23/2009 - 11:56am Comments
Today, in conjunction with an announcement by President Obama calling for new efforts to reimagine and improve education in science and math, we are announcing a $2 million open competition supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur...
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Getting into College? There's a Game for That.
By Howard Rheingold 11/20/2009 - 6:30am Comments
While One Laptop per Child and other programs to address the digital divide are important, I have come to believe it is counterproductive to couple discussions of the transformative potential of digital media in learning too closely with...
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Empowering Youth-directed Learning in a Digital Age
By Barry Joseph 11/17/2009 - 10:00am Comments
Tashawna is a high school senior in Brooklyn, NY. In the morning she leaves home for school listening to MP3s, texting her friends about meeting up after school at Global Kids, where she participates in a theater program, or FIERCE, the...
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Social Media in South America: Orkut & Brazil
By Raquel Recuero 11/13/2009 - 12:24pm Comments
To start my participation here in DMLcentral, I want to write about social media outside the U.S., specifically in South America. Let's take the case of Orkut in Brazil, an interesting and relatively-unknown subject that I've researched and...
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Digital Media and Democracy: Early Returns
By Liz Losh 11/10/2009 - 9:15am Comments
The relationship between digital media and democracy is complicated, because it is difficult for researchers to draw causal connections between adopting new social computing technologies and promoting what Joseph Kahne, Mills College professor...
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Esther Wojcicki's H.S. Journalism Learning Community
By Howard Rheingold 11/05/2009 - 3:38pm Comments
I learned about Esther Wojcicki's high school journalism program and learning community from my personal learning network - the people I sought out on Twitter because they seemed to know something about the topics that interest me, including...
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Crowdsourcing Authority in the Classroom
By Cathy Davidson 11/03/2009 - 8:16am Comments
“A wacko holding forth on a soapbox.  If Ms. Davidson just wants to yammer and lead discussions, she should resign her position and head for a park or subway platform, and pass a hat for donations.” That is an example of some of the...
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The Rhetoric of MySpace vs. Facebook
By danah boyd 10/26/2009 - 12:13pm Comments
From Eszter Hargittai's scholarship to more recent work by marketing analytics firms, we know that race and socio-economic status shape MySpace and Facebook usage. Yet, it is the rhetoric used by participants that highlights how these...
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Field Building and Scholarly Publication
By Mimi Ito 10/26/2009 - 11:41am Comments
As a new media researcher, I've struggled to find appropriate venues for publishing and disseminating my work. In the late nineties, when studies of online communities, cyberculture, and electronic gaming were still in their infancy, and when I...
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Welcome to the University of California's New Digital Media and Learning Research Hub and Website
By David Theo Goldberg 10/26/2009 - 9:56am Comments
Today, at the forum on Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age, being hosted by the Sesame Workshop at Google headquarters, we are announcing the launch of a major new research initiative in digital media and learning (DML) and its associated...
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