Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

3.13.08 | Continuing our discussion of civics this week, we reblog John Palfrey’s recent piece on how digital media can engage youth online. John reacts to the new volume in the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. John is the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a Professor at Harvard Law School.

“I’ve been making my way with care (and great pleasure) through the fine series of books that the MacArthur Foundation and MIT Press have put together on Digital Media and Learning. There are six in total, each worth reading. (I previously blogged about the volume on Youth, Identity, and Digital Media.) ...

The opening essay, by editor W. Lance Bennett, sets the frame for the book. He looks at “Changing Citizenship in the Digital Age,” and compares two paradigms: one of young people as engaged and active in civic life, the other as disengaged and passive.” Read More.

Editor’s Note: Read John Palfrey’s announcement about the full MacArthur Series here. Also Lance Bennett posted earlier this week on Spotlight. Check out his discussion of the Digital Media and Civic Learning Project here.