Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America, participated in a web chat about the RIAA’s new Anti-Piracy Campaign on US university campuses — sending pre-litigation notices to digital natives accused of illegal activity on peer-to-peer networks, which the universities are asked to pass along to the students. The Berkman Center’s Lewis Hyde … Read more
I’m with a group of 20 wonderful educators talking about technology in the classroom at a NYSAIS workshop. It’s taking place at The School at Columbia University, a totally beautiful, wired school built three years ago. We’re looking now at the debates on a wiki format right now. We’re talking also about what tags are. … Read more
Today, I’m in Montreal for La Boule de Cristal, talking about Digital Natives and Digital Identity — or, apparently, La gestion des identites, en francais. It’s quite a venue and a huge event, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and lots of Montreal-based researchers and entrepreneurs.
Lee Rainie and John Horrigan have released the latest in their series of insightful reports about the impact of Internet use on politics. This report (covered by Frank Davies of the Merc) examines political activity and information access online during the 2006 campaign cycle. Good news for those focusing on digital natives and their use … Read more
Five talented students in my Freshman Seminar at Harvard College have created a survey on digital media usage. They could use your help if you are currently an undergrad at a US college. Here’s the announcement, in their words: “Do you condone stealing? “Internet piracy is a prevalent issue on college campuses from coast to … Read more
Derek Slater notices, as others have, that Digital Natives only use email for “formal” activities, liking corresponding with adults and turning in homework. Informal interaction is through internal communications mechanisms in Facebook or MySpace or on IM. I wonder if it’s push (e-mail is less useful than it once was, plagued by spam and so … Read more
Great initial news from CIRCLE: voter turnout among young people is way up in 2006. Hopefully it is a trend in the making. From their news release: “An estimated ten million young Americans under the age of 30 voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections, an increase of at least two million compared to 2002, according to … Read more
Tim Armstrong, former Berkman fellow and now a prof at the U of C, writes: “… the permanence of networked information has costs, too, which (like the benefits) are only beginning to be explored. Members of the generation just behind mine, who have grown up reflexively creating and posting information online, are learning that digital … Read more
You have a chance to help the world learn more, via Annenberg’s researcher Mimo Ito, about creative practices using new digital technologies. If you ever visit or post to AnimeMusicVideos.org, here’s your opportunity. The overview of the project at large is here.
I’m not sure it’s all right, but a provocative piece about Facebook & co. at the excellent Knowledge@Wharton site, with lots of quotes from Kevin Werbach, who usually is right. The implication is that they will become the victims of their own success, expand too far, and the digital natives will leave them for the … Read more