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Social Networks Support Grieving, Healing in Aftermath of Brazilian Nightclub Tragedy
On the early morning of Jan. 27, one of the most striking tragedies in Brazil's history took place. A fire started and spread in a popular nightclub in Santa Maria, killing more...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipAugmenting Reality: Addressing Trauma with Digital Media
Colombian artist Isabel Restrepo has tackled a variety of projects to promote digital literacy, raise awareness to change public health and safety behavior, and foster civic participation in a number of different...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipDML Conference 2013: Democratic Futures (Ethan Zuckerman, Keynote)
Ethan Zuckerman (@EthanZ) will deliver the keynote at this year's Digital Media & Learning Conference, "Democratic Futures," March 14-16 in Chicago, and we asked Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold) to vlog with Zuckerman, director...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital CitizenshipIn my last post, I argued that an alternative to the Web 2.0 vision of the Internet—one where individuals "create value" for the corporations that run online networks—are the decentralized networks of...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Network Society After Web 2.0: What Students Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street
Web 2.0 is a common buzzword used to describe social media. The term gained traction in the mid-2000s to describe a change in the way people interacted with media online. Rather than...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWhat Ancient Greek Rhetoric Might Teach Us About New Civics
A great deal of our conversation lately has focused on getting governments to open up their data and to share what they know with the general public. We are beginning to see...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipThe Social Relevance of Public Writing
I want to talk about the nature of writing in today's age of participatory media. In particular, I want to talk about how writing within my classroom has helped foster community amongst...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningHabits of Living: Being Human in a Networked Society
Recently, in Bangalore, a cluster of academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners, were supported by Brown University, to assemble in a Thinkathon (a thinking marathon, if you will) and explore how our new...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWhy We Need a Reddit and Kickstarter for Educational Research
Lately, I've been thinking about what digital media can do to improve what we know about learning. And you know what I've decided? I think it is time that learning needs to...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThree Conversations for Parents: Navigating Networked Publics
Parenting is hard. Many parents find parenting in an era of social media to be confusing, in part because they must advise their children to make sense of spaces that they don't...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe ‘Presence’ Project and the ‘Be Here Now’ Box: Digital Media and Family Attention
Enthusiasts and skeptics agree that digital media are attention magnets. The Pew Internet and American Life Project reported that one in six Americans admitted to bumping into someone or something while texting,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipI was on a Google hangout with some friends the other day, and we were talking about the thisness and thatness of life. Conversations (as they always do) veered towards books we...
Category: Digital CitizenshipLast week, I gave a lecture titled “The Emergence of Digital Civics” at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. I was in South Australia to give another lecture, a joint lecture with Dr....
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipSocial Media Discourse: Violence, Olympiads and Our Everyday Life
All the world's attention was recently focused on the Olympic Games in London. The competition was widely broadcasted by traditional and online media, with an astronomic audience, reaching many countries. Social media...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityDigital Literacies and Web Literacies: What’s the Difference?
I’m currently iterating some work around Web Literacies for the Mozilla Foundation (you can see the latest version of my thinking here). Perhaps the biggest consideration when dealing with so-called ‘New’ Literacies...
Category: Digital Citizenship
