As Fred noted, there is a new, excellent-as-always report out from the Pew Internet & American Life Project - “Teens, Video Games, and Civics.” [PDF] To get it out of the way up top - no, not really, there’s not much positive correlation in terms of civics and game-playing. Nor negative. This is in part [...]
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Gamers
Posted in research on September 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Input Roundup
Posted in research on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
This summer I’m going to be involved in a lot of media production while on the Digital Natives team at the Berkman Center, but not a lot of it is going to be routed (directly) through here. So, a short roundup of where you can find me:
Digital Natives blog, here, along with fellow-interns John Randall [...]
The Emerging/ent Social Memex
Posted in research on April 4, 2008 | No Comments »
A phrase that every student of information science becomes acquainted with quickly is “Vannevar Bush’s classic article “As We May Think,”…” followed by some discourse on the evolution of information science/the Internet/technology/etc. Bush’s article is a classic for a reason - published in 1945 in The Atlantic, it provided a conceptual and operational framework for [...]
Responsibilities
Posted in research, sns on January 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Via Nicole Ellison, SNS researcher par excellance, comes this:
So, word on the street has it that friends lists privacy controls are on the way. I believe allowing Facebook users to specify who has access to which information will allow them to take advantage of the self-presentational opportunities afforded by the site without having to use [...]
Generalizability
Posted in research on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the main bugaboos I’ve developed since ensconcing myself in academia is the drawing of overly-broad conclusions based on ungeneralizable samples or populations. This is often the fault of researchers themselves, but I’ve been unsurprised to learn (given my scepticism of media generally, from a previous life) that it’s perhaps even more often the [...]
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