Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boiling oil onto the heads of our enemies as they attempted to bang down the gates of our village. […]
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How the Web Became Our ‘External Brain,’ and What It Means for Our Kids
Recently, my two-year-old nephew Benjamin came across a copy of Vanity Fair abandoned on the floor. His eyes scanned the glossy cover, which shone less fiercely than the iPad he is used to but had a faint luster of its own. I watched his pudgy thumb and index finger pinch together and spread apart on […]
Conversations Across Cultures: Youth Media Visions
Youth Media Visions is intended to be a useful resource for people interested in exploring the intersection of youth media, education and creation. It presents seven experiences developed by educators, social activists and media creators, who within their organizations work along with young people and media production. This book is the result of Conversations Across […]
Tech use, abuse, attitudes in Young Adult Fiction
Ignite Presentation for LSC531 at URI Summer Session 2014
Five Minutes with Judith Donath (MIT)
MIT Press_ Our latest “Five Minutes with the Author” is with Judith Donath who is a Faculty Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and author of The Social Machine.
Empoderar a la ciudadanía mediática desde la educomunicación
En el presente artículo se analiza el concepto de ciudadanía en sus diferentes significaciones (ciudadanía política, jurídica, social, económica, ecológica e intercultural), con el fin de justificar la actualidad del concepto de ciudadanía mediática, sobre todo por su validez en el ámbito de la educomunicación. El objetivo último es reconstruir la dimensión social, ética y […]
Análisis del cortometraje “¿De verdad piensas eso de mí?”, ganador del Festival PLURAL+ 2012 categoría 9-11 años
Este artículo aborda el proceso de producción del cortometraje titulado ¿De verdad piensas eso de mí? realizado por un grupo de niños entre 9 y 12 años del Taller Telekids, dedicado desde hace más de 15 años a la alfabetización audiovisual infantil. Este corto resultó ganador en el Festival Plural+ 2012 en Nueva York y […]
Digital Digest, Q1 2014
The first quarter of 2014 was full of developments in the digital realm, check out the most important among them in the latest issue of the Digital Digest. Explore in this issue: 1. Social Media: Twitter adds new trend locations to the Middle East, a list of the ME’s most famous YouTube channels, and pretty […]
Posibilidades educativas de las redes sociales y el trabajo en grupo. Percepciones de los alumnos universitarios
El cambio en las metodologías de aula viene de la mano, en muchos casos, de Internet y de las herramientas de la Web 2.0. Por otra parte, el desarrollo de una perspectiva de corte constructivista apoyado en el trabajo en grupo, suponen que la formación de los estudiantes puede ser alimentada a través de este […]
Middle East Digital Digest, Q4 2013
Our quarterly round up of Internet and Technology developments from across the Middle East and elsewhere on the globe is back, in a whole new look! Check it out for many stories from 2013’s last quarter that you don’t want to miss. This issue contains stories about social media uptake in the middle east, with […]
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