March 27th, 2008
[Regblogged] danah boyd: how youth find privacy in interstitial space: We reblog danah boyd’s recent piece about the race going on between parental surveillance vs. technology to assert privacy. boyd reminds us that youth have been trying to find ways to communicate outside the watchful…

March 25th, 2008
[Reblogged] Howard Gardner: The End of Literacy? Don’t Stop Reading.: Howard Gardner asks “What will happen to reading and writing in our time?” We reblog his piece from the Washington Post last month that examines the future of literacy. Howard Gardner is…

March 19th, 2008
Rik Panganiban: The International Justice Center in Second Life: Global Kids’ Second Life Producer and Program Associate, Rik Panganiban, announces the launch this week of the International Justice Center in Second Life, an education and action clearinghouse supporting a global constituency…

March 18th, 2008
Steven Gerber: Internet Meets the International Criminal Court: In conjunction with the first International Justice Award and the new International Justice Center in Second Life, MacArthur’s Program Officer in Human Rights and International Justice discusses the International Criminal Court and its increasing connections…

March 6th, 2008
Kevin Denney: Archiving Learning: When are things ready for storing? A member of the Illinois Institute of Technology research faculty looks at understanding how people collect and store data and objects.
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March 3rd, 2008
Julia Stasch: Reflections on the HASTAC-MacArthur Competition Winners: Vice President Julia Stasch of the MacArthur Foundation reflects on the inaugural winners as a cohort. 

February 28th, 2008
[Regblogged] Cathy Davidson: When ‘No’ Means ‘Try Again’: Winners were announced last week in the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. Here we reblog Cathy Davidson’s piece from the HASTAC blog on the challenges of providing comments and feedback…

February 26th, 2008
Tony Curzon Price: Tell me who to believe in Second Life? And can I believe your answer?: Tony Curzon Price of opendemocracy.net previews an upcoming conversation in Second Life this Friday on “Credibility and Reputation in the New News.” The discussion will explore questions about the credibility and accuracy of…

February 21st, 2008
Inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition Selects Winning Projects: HASTAC announces seventeen winners in the first Digital Media and Learning Competition. To see a list of winners and their project descriptions visit the competition website at http://www.dmlcompetition.net. 
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February 20th, 2008
[Regblogged] Davidson & Goldberg: The Digital Media and Learning Competition: Tomorow HASTAC will be announcing the projects that have won the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. In preparation, we reblog Cathy Davidson & David Theo Goldberg’s three-part series on the Competition from their HASTAC…

February 14th, 2008
[Regblogged] John Palfrey: The MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning: We reblog John Palfrey’s piece from last month about the new MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning just out this past December from MIT…

February 14th, 2008
Event Recap: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds—photos, podcasts and more: On January 28, the MacArthur Foundation co-hosted its second event in a virtual world.  The topic was ‘civil liberties and virtual worlds,’ featuring Jack Balkin of Yale Law School and Robin Harper of Linden Lab…

January 24th, 2008
Online Discussion: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds (January 28, Webcast and in Second Life): MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton will host a panel discussion on “Philanthropy and Virtual Worlds: Considering Civil Liberties” on January 28. 

January 14th, 2008
Andrew Flanagin and Miriam Metzger: Kids, Credibility, and Digital Media: Survey to provide first-ever comprehensive look at kids’ perceptions of the credibility of online information.

November 20th, 2007
Event Follow up: What are Kids Learning in Virtual Worlds?: A large crowd joined us in Los Angeles last week for an engaging discussion about what kids are learning in virtual worlds. This was our third Public Forum in Digital Media and Learning.

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…

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 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 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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