Justine Cassell, Director, Center for Technology & Social Behavior; Professor, Computer Science & Communication Studies
Northwestern University, http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/justine/
Three Expertise Keywords:
backlash-against-youth-and-digital-media, gender-and-technology, youth-led-communities
Read More: http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/justine
http://articulab.northwestern.edu/
http://www.technologyandsocialbehavior.org/
Why Digital Media and Learning?
I’m interested in the future of youth and digital media because… it’s the only future we have.
Recent Posts:
- Justine Cassell: disparity between girls’ use and career choices (December 2, 2006)
- Justine Cassell: Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology (November 28, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
I spend my time trying to understand everyday kinds of conversation and storytelling, as practiced by children and adults in the absence of technology, so as to better build technologies that simulate, mediate, and facilitate those everyday kinds of talk. These technologies, such as Embodied Conversational Agents, Story Listening Systems, and Online Communities, in turn allow me to study the future of conversation and storytelling - with and through technology.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
MacArthur Series Link:
“High Tech or High Risk: Moral Panics about Girls Online”
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262633598.053
Jenkins, Henry & Cassell, Justine (in press) “From Quake Grrls to Desperate Housewives: A Decade of Gender and Computer Games.” Y. Kafai, C. Heeter, J. Denner, & J. Sun (eds.) Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Computer Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cassell, J. & Cramer, M. (in press) “Policing Gender and Technology: The Panic Surrounding Girls Online” in T. McPherson (ed.) Innovative Uses and Unexpected Outcomes. The MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning.
Cassell, Justine (in press) “Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human “. In J. Riskin (ed.) The Sistine Gap: History and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Cassell, Justine, Huffaker, David, Tversky, Dona & Ferriman, Kim (2006) “The Language of Online Leadership: Gender and Youth Engagement on the Internet “. Developmental Psychology 42 (3)
