Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

4.1.08 | “The MacArthur Foundation’s Series on New Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, includes a book called Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (2008); open access version here. I opened this book first when I was writing a chapter on Innovators, for Born Digital, a book I’m co-writing with Urs Gasser. I had reason to come back to this book again in thinking about the Task Force we’re chairing, called the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, as there’s a chapter that centers on risk and moral panic in the context of Internet safety.

As with the other volumes in the series, there’s much in this book that informs and provokes.

The first essay, by editor Tara McPherson, has a title with particular to the lawyer interested in this topic: ‘A Rule Set for the Future.’ It did not disappoint. This first essay serves both as a guide to the book as a whole as well as a description of six rules to lead to a bright future.” Read More.

Editor’s Note: Read John Palfrey’s announcement of the full MacArthur Series here and his discussion of the civics volume here.