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5/31/07
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Connie Yowell
ThinkeringSpaces: A New Idea for Libraries
MacArthur Awards Institute of Design at IIT Grant to Rethink Libraries5/29/07
Filed by
Connie Yowell
The Future of Institutions
How (if at all) should institutions change as a result of digital media?4/02/07
Filed by
Jen Humke
AERA Reception Hosted by MacArthur
If you’re in Chicago next week, we’re hosting a reception at the AERA conference, which will bring together education professionals from around the world.3/26/07
Filed by
Lance Bennett
Bennett on Youth Engagement: A Tale of Two Paradigms
Reflecting historic changes in citizenship styles and the public identities of young people, there are now competing paradigms of youth engagement. A short paper is included.3/26/07
Filed by
Lance Bennett
Release of Civic Engagement transcripts
A host of experts on civic engagement within and beyond the MacSeries volume gathered for an online discussion. Hosted by MacSeries editor Lance Bennett.1/12/07
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Larry Johnson
Larry Johnson: Who’s Listening to the Avatars?
Recent online conversations revealed a great disparity of perceptions on questions of identity, credibility, and civic engagement between those who have spent time in virtual worlds, and those who haven’t. Is it right to reject virtual worlds as irrelevant before exploring them?12/09/06
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Luke Walker
Luke Walker: Globalize This! A film festival powered by social networking
What inspired 8th grade studens in Scarborough, Ontario, to take action? Social networking for social good through TakingITGlobal.org…12/08/06
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Kate Raynes-Goldie
Kate Raynes-Goldie: TakingITGlobal and the importance of involving youth
Online hang out spaces for teens are getting a bad rap while the potentials of the sites are ignored. Sites like TakingITGlobal.org demonstrate some of the possibilies.12/07/06
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Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold on participatory media, public voice, civic engagement
Can participatory media literacy be an effective channel for introducing young people to civic engagement?12/07/06
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Zephyr Teachout
Teachout: A Diet for a New Media America
Radical changes are needed in teaching students about internet and power to save democratic culture…12/06/06
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Cathy Davidson
Cathy Davidson on “Performing Civic Engagement”
Civic engagement comes in many forms and not all of them have to do with voting booths.12/05/06
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Marina Umaschi Bers
Bers on civics: moving from designing curriculum to supporting experience
How do we leverage youth’s interest in new technologies by developing technology-based educational programs to promote civic engagement?12/05/06
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Michael X. Delli Carpini
Michael X. Delli Carpini’s Definitions of Key Terms
One of the difficulties in discussing the impact of digital media on civic and political engagement is a lack of clarity on what we mean by these terms. So let me suggest some simple (simplistic?) definitions…12/05/06
Filed by
Lance Bennett
This Week’s Theme: Civic Engagement
We’ll be spotlighting voices drawn from the online dialogs on Civic Engagement conducted earlier this month as part of the MacArthur Series.12/04/06
Filed by
Lance Bennett
