November 8th, 2007
Public Forum to Explore Kids’ Learning in Virtual Worlds: At a public forum in Los Angeles on November 14th experts in media and education will explore what kids are doing in virtual worlds and what it means for their values, identity and sense of…

October 2nd, 2007
Josh Fouts on Virtual Worlds: Interdependently Yours (Melting Pot or Diasporic Divide?): Here’s what caused the USC Center on Public Diplomacy to travel to Mexico for a migration conference— and to host a session there where all the panelists were simultaneously in Second Life.

September 20th, 2007
Laura Wray-Lake: Exploring Values in Virtual Worlds: Laura studies how individuals explore values and here she raises two key questions.

September 18th, 2007
G. Dirk Mateer: Beyond the Marketplace, Building the Virtual Social Contract: Economist G. Dirk Mateer asks whether the social contract in virtual worlds is particularly driven by legal and market forces.

September 13th, 2007
Connie Flanagan: Framing the Virtual Social Contract: Leading expert in civic engagement and service learning Connie Flanagan discusses the role of youth in shaping new virtual communities.  Virtual worlds offer powerful opportunities for young people to reimagine society, our values and institutions. …
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September 10th, 2007
Middaugh /Kahne/Evans: Civic Engagement in Virtual Worlds: Do civic activities in virtual worlds translate beyond those contexts?  Researchers from the Civic Engagement Research Group ask how participation in online games might help young people develop capacity for active citizenship. 
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September 7th, 2007
Joe Kahne: Is Digital Media Good for Democracy?: Will digital media transform the nature of civic and political engagement? Joe Kahne and his colleagues are studying the impact of high school student’s use of the internet and other digital media on their civic…
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September 4th, 2007
Rafi Santo: Digital Youth discuss the Digital World: What do today’s teens have to say about the way digital media affects their lives? Three different youth media experts take turns highlighting the recent FOCUS dialogues organized by Global Kids. 
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August 27th, 2007
Early Days of Competition Draw Crowd: Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg of HASTAC (www.hastac.org) report in on the interest generated by the launch of the Digital Media and Learning Competition last week. The Competition will award…
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August 22nd, 2007
Group Discussion on “Virtual Success”—will you know it when you see it?: Lucy Bernholz hosts a discussion with the funding community on what will philanthropy accomplish in virtual worlds, and how will we know?
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August 22nd, 2007
This Week’s Theme: Virtual World Events in Chicago and Singapore: The 3rd annual SLCC is in Chicago this week and MacArthur is sponsoring a track on non-profits and philanthropy in order to spark discussion about the use of virtual worlds for the public…

August 20th, 2007
Dilan Mahendran: Sound Against Vision in Digital Media: How do we define digital media? Dilan Mahendran asks whether digital sound is being left out of our discussions. Are we conflating digital media and visual media? 
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August 15th, 2007
C.J. Pascoe: You Have Another World to Create: Teens and Online Hangouts: How does digital media function as a new space to “hang-out” for contemporary youth? 

August 14th, 2007
Competition Launches: HASTAC calls for applications to new Digital Media and Learning Competition: The MacArthur Foundation is supporting the Digital Media and Learning Competition under the leadership of HASTAC (www.hastac.org).  Designed to support new projects that might not come to the Foundation’s attention through other channels, the…
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June 28th, 2007
Event Recap: Philanthropy in Virtual Worlds—photos, podcasts and more: On June 22, MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton and Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale (a.k.a. Philip Linden) had an historic conversation about how virtual worlds could revolutionize philanthropy.  At the event, Fanton also announced…

June 26th, 2007
Pop Cosmopolitanism in Virtual Worlds, or How Second Life Can Save the World: Virtual worlds are the new “third place” for retribalization & pop-cosmopolitanism.

June 12th, 2007
Emerging Details for June 22nd Event: Bookmark this post for emerging details on the event mentioned by Jonathan Fanton.
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June 4th, 2007
The Future of Learning Institutions: It is time to consider how learning institutions can be transformed and supported in new distributed configurations.
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June 1st, 2007
Schools are a Last Vestige of an Industrial Age: What will schools be like when they act like information age organizations?
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May 31st, 2007
ThinkeringSpaces: Why is tinkering a useful way to learn?