Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative:
Hi! This is Nafiza Akter, and I was one of the youth attending the Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age Forum. This forum was put together, as far as my understanding goes, to look at how technology could be used and incorporated into the current educational system for the benefit of the students. The nine youth that atte (Read More)
Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative:
This month we began working for the second time with librarians volunteering with incarcerated youth to think about how we could use virtual world technology in a way that would bring meaningful programming to these youth while incarcerated. As with the first time we worked with this very marginalized population (see my ear (Read More)
mobileYouth:
1) Henry Jenkins on Transmedia, Participatory & Convergence Culture Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot2) Heather Graham for MoveOn.org | POLITICS / ADS Zandland Blog3) Media Morsels for Lil’ Goblins: Next to New BOOks as Treats!Shaping Youth 4) RLabsTechnology for Community Empowerment 5) Levi’s ‘Go Forth’ campaign (dir. Cary (Read More)
The Guardian:
A decade ago most of us had never used the internet – now we can't imagine life without it. Actually, some of us can: there are 10 million people in the UK still without a connection. Are they, Tim Adams asks, losing out economically and culturally? Below, we ask four web refuseniks to go online to see how their lives would (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply:
Anyone who spent the early 1980s rewinding a squealing tape player in an attempt to load Lunar Lander on to a Sinclair ZX81 or Jet Set Willy on to a Spectrum will have been transported back to their youth by the BBC4 film Micro Men, repeated tonight. They will also have been in for a shock. Back in the 80s Clive Sinclair wa (Read More)
mobileYouth:
New media is a promise. It isn’t the solution.It’s a promise that you’ll turn the narrative from one about the brand to one about the customer.It’s easy to be seduced by the technology. Want to engage youth? Go mobile, go Facebook. Avoid the Meatball Sundae. It’s the Moon not the finger pointing at it.This is typical, Macy’ (Read More)
The Guardian:
A new breed of agency is not just making ads, but creating ready meals, signing bands and blurring the boundariesVice is an unusual media owner. The cocky, iconoclastic style magazine runs a pub near its east London headquarters, has its own clothing and record labels, runs an online TV site called VBS featuring films from (Read More)
The Guardian:
Australia went 2-0 up in the series after England made a spectacular mess of their run-chasePreamble Hello. In 2005 we had an open-top-bus tour and Andrew Flintoff spraying in the prime minster's bushes; in 2009 we have the Great Ashes Comedown Tour, also known as the seven-match one-day international series between England (Read More)
mobileYouth:
Upstart Radio by Graham BrownClick the picture to access more content on youth marketing and the public sectorMarlon Parker from Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town South Africa has been working on something remarkable. Getting youth involved in a social program is a challenge in itself. Getting at-risk you (Read More)
mobileYouth:
1) Youth, Technology, and Learning: Opportunities for Educators and Future Employers2) Digital Kids: Smartest or Dumbest? Interview, http://vimeo.com/1966656 Digital Kids: Smartest or Dumbest? Interview 2: Neil Howe from Education Week on Vimeo.3) A commercial interruption, http://ow.ly/lpWR4) Skateistan – The CNN Video, ht (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Pirate Party UK says it wants to influence policies on digital technology and copyright lawA new political party intent on legalising not-for-profit filesharing of music and films is aiming to capture the youth vote in the general election, according to its leader.The Pirate Party UK hopes to capitalise on the success of th (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Decision based on recession and BT's 'headcount pressures'• UK graduate vacancies fall by 25% as 49 apply for each jobBT has become one of the first big name companies to scrap its graduate recruitment scheme, adding to fears that dwindling job prospects may lead to a "lost generation" of young people leaving school or un (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Britons spend average of 25 minutes online a day• Twitter and Facebook warned over fickle usersFrom uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts, the older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth trend is to adopt it as its own. The cyberworld, it seems, is no exception.The prolif (Read More)
The Guardian:
Orange is launching a new mobile music service aimed squarely at the youth market. It will give pre-pay customers unlimited access to tracks from Universal Music's extensive catalogue and let them play them on any mobile phone.If users top up their talk time by at least £10 a month, the new Orange Monkey tariff will also gi (Read More)
Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative:
On Saturday, June 27, 2009, over 100 New York City-area youth gathered at The New School to showcase their use of digital media and technology at (o.o), the first NYC Digital Youth Media and Technology Festival. While the youth enjoyed a game design competition, a project fair, a college and career readiness fair, and more, (Read More)