2012 – DML Hub

Ugochi Acholonu

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:34:43 +0000

Ugochi Acholonu is a Ph.D candidate in the Learning Sciences and Technology Design program at Stanford University. Her research interests include Computers as cognitive tools, User Interfaces and Gaming Technology for the promotion of learning in young children, and cultural influences of access, use, and learning with technology.

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Daniel Araya

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:37:31 +0000

Daniel Araya is a Research Fellow in Learning and Innovation with the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The focus of his research is the confluence of digital technologies and economic globalization on learning and education. He has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation and the Kineo Group in Chicago. In 2011, he received the Hardie Dissertation Award and was selected for the HASTAC Scholars Fellowship. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Global Studies in Education. His newest books include: The New Educational Development Paradigm (2012, Peter Lang), Higher Education in the Global Age (2012, Routledge) and Education in the Creative Economy (2010, Peter Lang).

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danah boyd

jpond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:41:40 +0000

Dr. danah boyd is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a Research Fellow of the Born This Way Foundation, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. Her research examines the intersection of technology, society, and youth culture. Currently, she’s focused on privacy, youth meanness and cruelty, and human trafficking. She co-authored Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. She’s working a new book called “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens.”

Blog: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
Twitter: @zephoria

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Sahara Byrne

jpond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:21:56 +0000

Sahara Byrne is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her overarching communication interest is in message disruption processes, a theoretical construct known as noise. To this end, her research focuses on the intersection of media effects, strategic communication and cognitive development. I examine strategies that attempt to reduce the negative effects of the media on individuals, particularly those intending to protect children, such as media literacy interventions, governmental policies, censorship, disclaimers, ratings systems, household restrictions, co-viewing and technological filters. She is most interested in why these strategies are sometimes ineffective or actually cause harm. Sahara’s recent research aims to explain why this ‘boomerang effect’ is likely to occur in response to many types of strategic messages, especially those that are pro-social such as health campaigns.

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Alexander Cho

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:38:56 +0000

Alex is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Connected Learning Research Network at UC Irvine’s Digital Media and Learning Hub. He received a PhD in Media Studies from the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, where he researched how LGBTQ youth of color use Tumblr to express themselves and their political viewpoints. Alex’s research interests include how young people use social media and their relationship with issues of race, gender, and emotion. As a cultural anthropologist, his research method is qualitative, immersive, and ethnographic. He is the author or co-author of chapters in the books Networked Affect (MIT Press 2015) and Inequity in the Technopolis (University of Texas Press 2012), and his essays have appeared in GLQ, FlowTV, and Ethnography Matters.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock

jpond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:10:04 +0000

Sasha Costanza-Chock is a researcher and mediamaker who works on social movement media, the political economy of communication, collaborative design, and media justice. He is Assistant Professor of Civic Media at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies (cms.mit.edu), Co-PI of the Center for Civic Media (civic.mit.edu), and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Sasha has been a part of the Independent Media Center network, VozMob (vozmob.net), and the Allied Media Conference (alliedmedia.org), among other projects. For more info see http://schock.cc. Twitter: @schock

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Antero Garcia

jpond — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:55:50 +0000

Antero is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. Antero’s research focuses on developing critical literacies and civic identity through the use of mobile media and game play in formal learning environments. Prior to moving to Colorado, Antero was a teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles. Antero received his Ph.D. in the Urban Schooling division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In 2008 Antero co-developed the Black Cloud Game. A Digital Media and Learning Competition award recipient, the Black Cloud game provoked students to take real time assessment of air quality in their community. Using custom-developed sensors that measure and send data about air quality, students critically analyzed the role pollution played in their daily lives and presented recommendations to their community.

Antero’s numerous publications and conference presentations address technology, educational equity, youth participatory action research, and critical media literacy. Updates about Antero’s work can be found on his blog, The American Crawl.

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Louis Gomez

jpond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:07:41 +0000

Louis M. Gomez is the MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Learning at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Before joining the UCLA faculty he was the Helen S. Faison Professor of Urban Education and Sr. Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at The University of Pittsburgh. Professor Gomez is also currently serving as a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Palo Alto, Ca. . His scholarship focuses on understanding how to support organizational change in schools and other institutions. Along with his colleagues, Professor Gomez has been dedicated to collaborative research and development with urban communities to bring the current state-of-the-art in instruction and support for community formation to traditionally underserved schools. Most recently, Professor Gomez has turned his attention to problem solving research and development. This is R&D organized around high-leverage problems embedded in the day-to-day work of teaching and learning and the institutions in which these activities occur. Professor Gomez received a B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Mary L. Gray

jpond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:27:00 +0000

Mary L. Gray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her first book concentrated on contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-identifying (LGBT) youth experiences in the United States (see In Your Face: Stories From the Lives of Queer Youth, Haworth Press, 1999). That led her to wonder: what’s life like for youth who don’t have easy access to queer communities and resources typically associated with cities through out the United States? Where, when, and how do youth in the rural United States acquire the language for their queer senses of self? And with the rapid but unequal incorporation of digital media into the lives of youth and their support agencies, what difference does the Internet’s increasing presence—and presumed ubiquity—make to these youth negotiating their sense of sexuality and gender ?

She spent 2001-2007 looking at how young people, living along Kentucky’s Appalachian borders, use media to negotiate identity and visibility in this rural region of United States. Specifically, she studied how rural LGBT youth and their advocates use local support agencies, peer networks, and the internet as sites and technologies of sexual and gender representation–what she refers to as queer identity work. Her book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (New York University Press, 2009) shares what she learned from rural queer youth and their adult allies and offers their lessons for political organizers and media activists everywhere.

View a synopsis of Out in the Country here

These days, she has two, larger ethnographic projects competing for my attention: one explores how mobile media and constrained access to it shape people’s everyday lives. What do people do with mobile technologies, designed for people on the move, if they feel stuck in or tethered to the places and social locations they call home? She has a second passion/obsession: a study that traces how ethics and the cyberinfrastructures of research compliance produce norms of vulnerability and risk in social scientific research involving human subjects.

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Eszter Hargittai

jpond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:58:15 +0000

Eszter Hargittai is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University where she heads the Web Use Project. She is also Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society where she spent the 2008-09 academic year in residence. In 2006-07, she was a Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University where she was a Wilson Scholar.

Hargittai’s research focuses on the social and policy implications of digital media with a particular interest in how differences in people’s Web-use skills influence what they do online. Her work has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, the International Communication Association, the National Communication Association and the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. In 2010, the International Communication Association selected her to receive its Outstanding Young Scholar Award.

In addition to her academic articles, her work has also been featured in numerous popular media outlets including the New York Times, BBC, CNNfn, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and many others. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Dan David Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, Nokia and Google among others.

Hargittai is editor of Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have” (University of Michigan Press 2009), which presents a rare behind-the-scenes look at doing empirical social science research.

She writes an academic career advice column at Inside Higher Ed called Ph.Do.

For more background information, see this feature article in the Princeton Alumni Wekkly.

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