May 31st, 2007
ThinkeringSpaces: A New Idea for Libraries: MacArthur Awards Institute of Design at IIT Grant to Rethink Libraries

May 29th, 2007
The Future of Institutions: How (if at all) should institutions change as a result of digital media?
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April 2nd, 2007
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.

March 26th, 2007
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. 

March 26th, 2007
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.

January 12th, 2007
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…
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December 9th, 2006
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…
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December 8th, 2006
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.

December 7th, 2006
Howard Rheingold on participatory media, public voice, civic engagement: Can participatory media literacy be an effective channel for introducing young people to civic engagement?

December 7th, 2006
Teachout: A Diet for a New Media America: Radical changes are needed in teaching students about internet and power to save democratic culture…
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December 6th, 2006
Cathy Davidson on “Performing Civic Engagement”: Civic engagement comes in many forms and not all of them have to do with voting booths.

December 5th, 2006
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?
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December 5th, 2006
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?)…
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December 5th, 2006
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.
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December 4th, 2006
Bennett - Civic Engagement: Environments that Help Young People Go Public: How can digital media environments and communication skills bring young people to public life?
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November 16th, 2006
Raiford Guins: A Positive Side to Web2.0: For issues of race and ethnicity, the web’s freedom from traditional broadcast restrictions is important.  Existing architectures can be occupied.  New information sources emerge for politics and organizing.  And some label sites are significantly broadening…

October 20th, 2006
danah boyd: coverage from MacArthur’s launch of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative: Yesterday i had the fortune to participate in the launch so that i could bringing you, our dear new readers, some sense of what took place.  First an overview, and then i want to dive…
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