Conference Program

Conference Abstracts are now available below*

DML Conference Final Program 2010

S. Craig Watkin's Opening Keynote

Digital Media and Learning: The State of the Field Plenary Session

Sonia Livingstone's Closing Keynote

Additional Powerpoint Presentations and Papers Available here

*This schedule is subject to minor changes. 

 

 

Day 1: Thursday, February 18th, 2010 

Time  Location/Event
5:00pm Location:
Registration/Reception Area
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
 

Registration Opens

   
6:00pm Location:
Registration/Reception Area
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater (Overflow)
 

 

Welcome 
David Theo Goldberg

Julia Stasch

Henry Jenkins

 
6:30pm Location:
Registration/Reception Area
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater  (Overflow)
 

 

Opening Keynote Introduction
Henry Jenkins
Opening Keynote "Living on the Digital Margins: How Black and Latino Youth are Remaking the Participation Gap"
S. Craig Watkins
 
7:30pm Location:
Registration/Reception Area
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
 

Reception Begins

 

 

 

Performances - 8:30pm

Texterritory 

Sheron Wray
Fleeta Siegel
Ann Scott
eDance: Experiential Media and Movement
John Crawford
Martin Gotfrit
Lisa Naugle

 

Day 2: Friday, February 19th, 2010

Time Location/Event
8:00am
Session I
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 5004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
Room 5302
Location:
Room 6004
 

Symposium on Virtual Worlds at the Intersection of Race, Class and Possibility

Chair: 
Mark Marino

Participants:
Beth Coleman
Fox Harrell
Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell
Dave Parry
Lisa Nakamura

Breaking Boundaries with Virtual Worlds in a Science Classroom and a Teen Jail: Two Case Studies

Chairs: 
Cathy Arreguin
Amira Fouad
Participants:
Kelly Czarnecki 
Amira Fouad
Barry Joseph 
Elizabeth Wellman 
Cathy Arreguin

EduMod

Chair: 
Douglas White
Participants:
Douglas White
Yong Ming Kow
Discussants:
Stephen Franklin
Lamar Hill
Amanda McDonald

Orality, Pedagogy, and New Media: How Children Develop Self-Awareness and Collective Consciousness

Chair: 
Antero Garcia
Participants:

Antero Garcia 
Greg Niemeyer
Davida Herzl
Dehanza Rogers
Scott Ruston

Situating Interests: A Critical Look at Four Case Studies in Digital Media and Learning

Chair:
Lori Takeuchi
Moderator: 
Ingrid Erikson
Participants: 
Christo Sims
Robert Torres
Lori Takeuchi
Becky Herr-    Stephenson

Exploring Communities and Tools that Support Teen Media Literacy and Participation

Chair:
Marty Lane
Participants:
Marty Lane
Gretchen Rinnert
Ryan Rish

9:15am Break
9:45am
Session II
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 5004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
Room 5302
Location:
Room 6004
 

The Worked Example: Invitational Scholarship in Service of an Emerging Field

Chairs:          
Sasha Barab
Jim Gee
Valerie Shute

Participants:
Sasha Barab
Barbara Davis
James Gee 
Melissa Gresalfi
Daniel Hickey
Valerie Shute
Robert Torres
Discussants:
Henry Jenkins
Howard Gardner

Global Education and Learning

Chairs: 
Karen Hewitt
Katherine Walraven
Participants:
Karen Hewitt
Katherine Walraven
Edwin Gragert
Terry Godwaldt

“Troubling” technology and teens: Exploring the relationships between young people’s technologies, learning spaces, and access to academic discourses

Chair:
Sarah Lohnes Watulak
Participants:
Dana Wilber
Lalitha Vasudevan
Sarah Lohnes Watulak

Designing participatory spaces for young people to create media and gain new media literacy skills

Chair:
Michael Dezuanni
Participants:
Michael Dezuanni
Andrés Monroy-Hernandez
Kai Kuikkaniemi

Sympathetic and critical looks at "kids as game designers and programmers"

Chairs

Colleen Macklin
Jill Denner
James Diamond

Participants:
Karen Michaelson
Chris Wisniewski
Jill Denner
Jim Diamond
Colleen Macklin
John Sharp        

Setting Critical and Creative Parameters for a Cross-Disciplinary / Platform Research Agenda

Chair:  
Vicki Callahan
Discussant:
Virginia Kuhn
Participants:
DJ Johnson 
Matt Williams 
Craig Dietrich 
Vicki Callahan

11:00am Break
11:30am
Session III
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 5004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
Room 5302
Location:
Room 6004
 

In and Out of the Box: Elementary Rural, Urban and Minority Children’s Engagement with Digital Media for Learning about the World

Chair:
Renee Hobbs
Participants:
Lori Takeuchi
Joy Pierce
Henry Cohn-Geltner
John Landis
Jeff Share
Renee Hobbs

 

Data Visualization for K-12 Learning

Chair:
David Birchfield
Discussants:
Allan Jeong
Mina Johnson
Barry Joseph
David Tinapple
Katie Salen
James Gee

Storytellers, Storymakers and Learning by ARG

Chair
Stephen Petrina
Discussants:
Stephen Petrina
Mela Kocher
Ken Eklund
PJ Rusnak

Youth Media: Investigating a Means of Participation and Diversification

Chair:
Lisa Tripp
Participants:
Lisa Tripp
JoEllen Fisherkeller
Sophia Mansori
Ethan van Thillo
Kathleen Tyner

Youth, New Media and Public Participation in International Contexts

Chair:
HyeRyoung Ok
Discussant:
Eric Baumer
Participants:
Cara Wallis
Rose Yee Hing Liang
Katherine Walraven
Merlyna Lim
HyeRyoung Ok

Rules of engagement in participatory cultures: negotiating feedback, audiences and critique in online communities

Chair:
Dan Perkel
Participants:
Dan Perkel
Lyndsay Grant
Becky Herr-Stephenson
Kurt Luther

12:45pm

Lunch (on your own)

Demos for Experimental Game Lab at Calit2 (Meet at Elevators, Sign up sheet will be at the registration desk)

Sheldon Brown, Director of CRCA, Erik Hill, Daniel Tracy, Kristen Kho, Robert Twomey, Chris Head, Micha
Cardenas, and Todd Margolis

2:00pm
Session IV
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 5004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
Room 5302
Location:
Room 6004
 

Reaching Diverse Student Populations in Embedded Ubiquitous Educational Environments

Chair:
Meg Cramer

Participants:
Tom Moher
Roy Pea
Walt Scacchi
Kelly Wilson

Moderator:
Gillian Hayes

 

 

Fair Use: Perspectives on Copyright and Fair Use for Digital Learning

Chairs:
Jason Schultz
Participants:
Patricia Aufderheide

Jason Schultz
Renee Hobbs
Steve Anderson

Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogue on the Ethics of Digital Life

Chair:
Katie Davis
Participants:
Rik Panganiban
Shira Lee Katz
Katie Davis

Futures-focused perspectives on learning and participation in new media ecologies

Chair:
Sue Cranmer
Discussant:
Sonia Livingstone
Participants:
Ben Williamson
Lyndsay Grant
Mary Ulicsak
Sue Cranmer

From Fan Activism to Political Activism: Participatory Democracy around Popular Media Affinity Groups

Chair:
Sangita Shresthova
Participants:
Anna van Someren
Clement Chau
Lana Schwartz
Ray Vichot
Benjamin Stokes
Ritesh Mehta
Lori Kido Lopez
M. Flourish Klink
Kevin Driscoll

Ray Vichot

Joshua McVeigh-Schultz

Melissa Brough

Programming and Pluralism: Diversifying Participation in Computational Creation

Chair:
Karen Brennan
Facilitators:
Karen Brennan
Mitchel Resnick
Shaundra Daily

3:15pm Break
3:45pm
Session V
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 5004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
Room 5302
Location:
Room 6004
 

New Media, Popular Culture, and Pedagogy in Urban Literacy Education

Chair:
Korina Jocson
Participants:
Ernest Morrell
Veronica Garcia
Korina Jocson

 

Last Bastions: The Promise and Problems of Digital Learning in Higher Education

Chair:
Elizabeth Losh
Participants:
Elizabeth Losh
Lev Manovich
Todd Presner
Diane Harley
Holly Willis

Inspiring Uses of Digital Media in Museums and Libraries: A Creative Inventory and Collaborative Analysis

Chair:
Anne Balsamo
Group Facilitators:
Susana Bautista
Maura Klosterman
Cara Wallis

Participatory Cultures: From Wikipedia to Vidding 

Chairs:
Louisa Stein
Participants:
Francesca Coppa
Julie Levin Russo
Tisha Turk
Alexis Lothian
Melanie Kohnen
Andrew Famiglietti
Louisa Stein

Computational Textiles as New Media Texts: Digital Media Learning in Youth and DIY Communities

Chair:
Kylie Peppler

Workshop Leaders:
Leah Buechley
Mike Eisenberg

 Participants:
Kylie Peppler
Yasmin Kafai 
Nichole Pinkard
Alan Gershenfeld
Heidi Schelhowe

Mad Skills: Making New Media Literacy practices accessible to educators and students alike

Chair:
Erin Reilly
Participants:
Barry Joseph
Erin Reilly
Flourish Klink

5:00pm Short Break
5:15pm Location:
Auditorium/Theater (Overflow)
 

INVITED SESSION:


Digital Media and Learning: The State of the Field

Chair:
Heather Horst
Discussion Moderator:
Mimi Ito
Participants:
Brigid Barron
Lynn Schofield Clark
Eszter Hargittai
Joe Kahne
Kevin Leander
Amanda Lenhart

 

Day 3: Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Time Location/Event
8:00am
Session VI
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 3004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
5th Floor SW
Location:
Room 5004
 

Digital Media Production and Social Change

Chairs
Sasha Costanza-Chock 
Alice Mello
Participants:
Adam Perez 
Claire Villard 
Sylvia Ly
Amanda Ashley
Katie Camarda
Meghan Stettler
Alice Mello
Karen Michaelson
Ethan van Thillo

Youth Media Production in Urban Settings

Chairs:
Brigid Barron
Richard Beach
Alia Carter
Participants:
Shaundra Daily
Alia Carter
Julian Daily
Cynthia Lewis
Richard Beach
Jessie Dockter
Cassie Scharber
Amanda Perry
Nichole Pinkard
Kim Gomez
Maryanna Rogers
Amber Levinson
Brigid Barron
Kimberley Austin
Daniel Stringer
Jolie Matthews
Veronique Mertyl
Caitlin Martin

Expertise and Digital Media: Three Approaches

Chair:
Robb Lindgren
Participants:
Kelly Page
Rudy McDaniel
Robb Lindgren

Investigating Multiple Channels For Participation in Online Gaming Communities

Chair:
Elisabeth Hayes
Participants:
Elisabeth Hayes
Sean Duncan
Alice Robison
Shree Durga

Global Perspectives on Learning: Brazil and Singapore

Chairs:
Hernani Dimantas
Kenneth Lim
Participants:

Drica Guzzi 
Ricardo Kobashi
Cacau Freire
David Hung
David Huang
Kenneth Lim        

Social Media Capital - Listening to Youth: Using Youth-produced Media to Understand Community Conditions that Influence Change


Chair:
Kindra Montgomery-Block
Presenters:
Patsy Eubanks Owens
Amanda Perry
Alyssa Nelson
Julia Vargas

9:15am Break
9:45am
Session VII
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 3004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
5th Floor SW
Location:
Room 5004
 

INVITED SESSION:


The Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition: The use of new technologies in the organization of learning in culturally diverse afterschool community centers

Chair:
Michael Cole
Participants:
Rachel Cody Pfister
Robert Lecusay
Althea Nixon
Ivan Rosero
Tamara Powell
Jennifer Ryan
Mike Cole

Youth Media and the Digital Afterlife

Chair:
Elisabeth Soep
Participants:
Elisabeth Soep
David Pescovitz 
Nishat Kurwa
Brandon McFarland
Nico Pitney

Engaging Diverse Learners in Community-based New Media Art Programs and Centers

Chair:
Juan Carlos Castro
Discussant
Ching-Chiu Lin
Participants:
Kit Grauer
Sandra Weber
Leanne Levy

Diversifying Mobiles: Participatory Learnings

Chair:
Richard Scullin
Participants:
Derek Lomas  
Eric Klopfer 
Richard Scullin
Jared Lamenzo
Colleen Macklin

The mangle of play: Game challenges and player workarounds

Chair:
Mark Chen
Participants:
Moses Wolfenstein
Ben DeVane
Sara M. Grimes
Sarah E. Walter
Mark Chen

Building A Multilingual Web: Using New Media to Remove Linguistic Barriers to Online Participation

Chair:
Laura Welcher
Participants:
Michael Smolens
Jason Price
Bryan Campen

11:00am Break
11:30am
Session VIII
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 3004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
5th Floor SW
Location:
Room 5004
 

Nerdfighters, Little Sisters, Future Souls and Other Diverse Ecologies of Virtual Participation and Learning

Chair:
Jabari Mahiri
Presenter:
Emily Kim
Brooklyn Williams
Daniel Gray-Kontar
Maryanne Berry
Jeremy Brett

 

Laptops and K-12 Education in the US: Diversifying Participation

Chairs:
Sheila Cotten
Mark Warschauer
Participants:
Nichole Pinkard
Brigid Barron 
Gerald Ardito
Julian Daily
Shaundra Daily
Brady Quirk-Garvan
Shelia Cotten
Timothy Hale
LaToya O'Neal
William Anderson   Casey Borch
Betty Nelson
Michael Howell-Moroney
Mark Warschauer

Queer You(th) Tube

Chair:
Jonathan Alexander
Participants:
Jonathan Alexander
Elizabeth Losh
Alexandra Juhasz

The Promises and Problems of the University as a New Digital Landscape

Chairs
Zoe Corwin
Don Waisanen
Discussant:
William Tierney
Participants:
Don Waisanen
Jean Sandlin
Jose Marichal
Russell Stockard
Tracy Fullerton
Zoe Corwin
Victor Garcia

Participatory Learning in School: Square Peg in Round Hole?

Chair

James Bosco

Participants:
James Bosco
Milton Chen
Erin Reilly
Margaret Weigel

Christine Greenhow

Cross-cultural Collaboration Facilitated by Digital Creations

Chair:
Patricia Diaz
Participants:
Freedom Reign 
Tamarind King
Nancy Douyon

12:45pm Lunch (on your own)
   

Location:
Theater

Performance 1:15pm 

Texterritory

Sheron Wray 
Fleeta Siegel
Ann Scott

       
2:00pm
Session IX
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 3004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
5th Floor SW
Location:
Room 5004
 

How Race, Ethnicity and Class Shape Digital Media Practices and Activism, Part I

Chairs:
danah boyd
Heather Horst
Brendesha Tynes
Discussion Moderator:
David Theo Goldberg
Participants:
Alexandrina Agloro
Heather Horst
Katynka Martinez
Lisa Nakamura

Parallel Processes, Diverse Engagements: A Workshop on Youth, Digital Education Tools and Ethics

Chairs:
John Fenn
Brian Goldfarb
Participants:
Alexandra Juhasz
Brian Goldfarb
Lauren Berliner
Andrew Rice
Wayne Yang
John Fenn
Lori Hager
Scott Huette

Ensuring excellence and equity in the design and implementation of new media literacy curricula

Chair:
Sam Gilbert
Discussants:
Sam Gilbert
Katie Davis
Justin Reich

A Youth Perspective: Creativity, Consciousness, and Community Culture

Chair:
Gail Breslow
Moderator

Gail Breslow

Participants:
Nancy Douyon
Tamarind King
Freedom Reign
Jose Ibarra

Anthony Noble
Dante Tatum
Gail Breslow


Identity, culture and agency in (the design of) digital media and learning

Chair:
Ben DeVane
Participants:
Ben DeVane
Ivan Alex Games
Erica Halverson
Reed Stevens
Discussant:
Elisabeth Hayes

Virtual Collaborative Environments for Cultural Heritage

Chair:
Maurizio Forte

Participants:

Ruzena Bajcsi

Nicolo' Dell'Unto

Paola Di Guiseppantonio Di Franco

Maurizio Forte

Fabrizio Galeazzi

Chris Johanson

David Kirsch

Nicola Lercari

Thomas Levy

Susan Schreiban

3:15pm Break
3:45pm
Session X
Location:
Auditorium
Location:
Theater
Location:
Room 3004
Location:
Room 4004
Location:
5th Floor SW
Location:
Room 5004
 

How Race, Ethnicity and Class Shape Digital Media Practices and Activism, Part II

Chairs:
danah boyd
Heather Horst
Brendesha Tynes
Discussion Moderator:
David Theo Goldberg
Participants:
danah boyd
Ilana Gerson
H. Erin Lee
Brendesha Tynes
S. Craig Watkins

Cultivating Creativity and Criticality in Schools and After-School Programs with Scratch

Chair:
Yasmin Kafai
Participants:
Kylie Peppler
Mitchel Resnick 
Deborah Fields 
Alicia Diazgranados 
James Crenshaw
Karen Brennan
Nina Parks

Digital Media and Learning as a Post-Academic Field

Chair:
Alexander Halavais
Discussants:
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Alex Pang
Jeremy Hunsinger
David Parry

Learning Networks: New York City and Chicago

Chairs:
Cory Garfin
Diana Rhoten
Participants:
Colleen Macklin
Steve Gano
Caroline Payson
Chris Lawrence
Cory Garfin
Drew Davidson
Nichole Pinkard
Amy Eshleman
Michael Lewis
Harmon Pollock
Eun Jung Lee

Reconfiguring Productive Media Use: Urban Renewal, Internet Policy and Being on the Move in China

Chairs:
Paul Dourish
Silvia Lindtner

Discussant:
Nicolai Volland
Participants:
Jing Ge
Silvia Lindtner
Elisa Oreglia
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Tricia Wang

Digital Media and the Ethics of Young People's Identity Construction

Chair:
Sharon Chappell
Participants:
Sharon Chappell
Drew Chappell
Amy Jensen
Eve Tulbert
Stephani Woodson

5:00pm Short Break
5:15pm Location:
Auditorium/Theater (Overflow)
 
Closing Keynote Introduction
Henry Jenkins
Closing Keynote "Youthful Participation - what have we learned, what shall we ask next?" 
Sonia Livingstone
6:15pm Location:
Auditorium/Theater (Overflow)
 
Closing Remarks
Henry Jenkins
6:30pm Location:
Auditorium/Theater (Overflow)
 

Conference Ends