Under 18: wikis, blogs and social networks panelandrea forte
georgia tech
researching online learning environments
wikis scare teachers
danah boyd
teenager became a marketing term by 1941
dont have to ppt, justhave to exist there (myspace)
4 tenets
– persistence
– searchability
– repicability
– invisible audiences
architecture of public life has changed via interactive
erin brackette reilly
zoe’s room
social network for science/tech/math 10-14 girls
xstream challenge
– mobile device
elizabeth sylan
MIT media lab
lifelong kindergarten group
tools for learning outside of schools
computer club house – over 100 thru world
interested in kids creating content to explore this period of their life
scratch – visual programming environment
kate raynes-goldie
takingitglobal.org
social network for social change (teens)
5 year old community
has begun to make design changes to appeal to myspace scared adults/parents
kids aren’t involved in process of legislation – so too confining and most laws dont apply
green party in canada used a wiki in 2004 and had large kids contingent
anastasia goodman
ypulse
3 years blogging
totally wired targeted at adults/parents
technology is not the only answer
cant legislate good behavior
dialogue is the main avenue for safety issue
what are youth getting out of their online lives
– the power of viral, global
– democratizing of bullying – not just the social elite (positve/negative 🙂 )
– so great for shy kids
– offline + online makes more powerful friendships, layered
– good for access to similar minded folks that dont exist in their offline world
– access to great role models
– not ness a huge media literacy happening
– more of a social sort of thing
– more marketing savvy than tech
what is the reality when it comes to dangers of youth online
– DOPA deleting online predators act. bans all kids from all social tech
– includes yahoo social groups, neopets, wikipedia (not the nfp side), myspace, etc
– reintroduced under diff name and in indiv states
– not digital divide problem, but a participatory divide
– online world is a mirror to the world offline
– have social workers on myspace
– understand that this is a public space and think about helping the citizens the same way
– question is the ethics different, but rather how is the architecture works
– breaking up online – brilliant b/c eliminate heresay
– educating kids and parents… not restriction
– cyber ethics
– ethics vs architechture politics
– ethics vs behavior
– cyberbullying a bigger problem than predators
– cheating is a huge problem online
– homework (turnitin)
– texting
– need for people working with teens to be educated
– using personal statements
– stranger danger was – people without a predefined role in your life
– instead of no stranger – define what is trust
– talking about the war to strangers vs having meetup for sex
– how to celebrate mash up vs plagerism is bad
– raciness is more a function of our culture
– thinking about what diff age demos need safety-wise
what kinds of social technological/design solutions are there, once we identify experiences we want to facilitate and/or prevent?
– filters give design a bad rep, but can be powerful
– make sure the tools help them self police exist
– tech must fit into pre-existing structures – and be ready to be morphed
– cell carriers are getting in the way
– if too hard, teens/kids wont do it
– if too forced they wont use it
– talk with audience to make better
– iterative design works best
– work on friend networks, viral – kid influencers
– corp responsilbity – same as public space responsble
– work instead of leg fixes but social workers/therapists, etc
– third party verifier system (school, youth group, corp)
– avs/moderators help out
Joi Podgorny 