Spotlight blogging Digital Media and Learning

Marina Umaschi Bers
Assistant Professor
Tufts University

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, civic-engagement, identity, virtual-communities

Sasha Barab
Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, Director of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology, Barbara Jacobs Chair of Technology
Indiana University (http://www.iub.edu)

Keywords: civic-engagement, ecology-of-games, situated-cognition

Josh Fouts
Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy
USC Center on Public Diplomacy at Annenberg School

Keywords: Civic Engagement, Inter-cultural Dialogue, Virtual Worlds

Gunther Eysenbach
Associate Professor and Senior Scientist
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, and University of Toronto

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, civic-engagement, digital-media, health, informatics, medicine

Rafi Santo
Online Leadership Program Associate - Virtual Community Manager
Global Kids, Inc. www.GlobalKids.org www.HolyMeatballs.org

Keywords: Civic-engagement, Virtual-Worlds, youth-voices

Lance Bennett
Professor of Political Science and Communication & Director, Center for Communication and Civic Engagement
University of Washington

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, Civic-Engagement, Media-Production, Youth-Networks

Howard Rheingold
Free-range Instigator
Independent: http://www.rheingold.com UC Berkeley; Stanford

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, civic-engagement, participatory-media, public-voice

Joseph Kahne
Dean, School of EducationAbbie Valley Professor of Education
Mills College/Civic Engagement Research Group www.civicsurvey.org

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, Games, Schools

Kathryn Montgomery
Professor, School of Communication
American University

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, Civic-Engagement, Public-policy, Youth

Ellen Middaugh
Research Associate
Mills College/Civic Engagement Research Group www.civicsurvey.org

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, Democracy, Schools

Jennifer Earl
Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, Civic-Engagement, internet, protest, social-movement

Katynka Martínez
Postdoctoral Researcher, USC, Annenberg Center for Communication Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University Department of Raza Studies
University of Southern California San Francisco State University http://www.annenberg.edu/info/martinez.php

Keywords: civic-engagement, game-design, Race-ethnicity

Peter Levine
Director
CIRCLE (Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement)

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, civic, Civic-Engagement, political

Angela Booker
Doctoral Candidate, Learning Sciences and Technology Design
Stanford University School of Education, http://ed.stanford.edu

Keywords: civic-engagement, everyday-technology, participation-spaces

Connie Flanagan
Professor of Youth Civic Development Dept. of Agricultural and Extension Education
Penn State University/Social Contract in Virtual Worlds Research Group http://agexted.cas.psu.edu/faculty/Flanagan.html

Keywords: civic-engagement, political-activism, social-contract

Michael X. Delli Carpini
Dean
The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, http://www.asc.upenn.edu/

Keywords: democratic-engagement, generational-politics, political-knowledge

Brad Lewis
Program Officer Community-Based Coordinator
Learn and Serve America Corporation for National and Community Service

Keywords: civic engagement, service-learning, youth voice

Laura Wray-Lake
Doctoral Candidate in Human Development and Family Studies
Pennsylvania State University/Social Contract in Virtual Worlds Research Group

Keywords: Civic-Engagement, Social-Contract, Values