he Internet both attracts and repels art institutions. Curators wonder who could possibly ensure quality control in a world where 50,000 videos are added to YouTube each day. Fortunately, artists themselves were crowdsourcing long before the Internet: composer John Cage laid out the principles fourteen years before Richard Stallman founded the Gnu project and twenty-nine years before the term "open source" was coined. Following the example of Cage, Jon Ippolito & John Bell are working to develop ways for artists to open source not only their art but their artistic process.
There is a need for new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively to understand what's happening on their network -- how it is impacting them, and how they are impacting it. This session introduces a cluster of technologies that seek to diagnose and improve PC health and network connectivity and empower users to understand and affect the future of the Internet.
John Palfrey and Urs Gassser explore some of the myths surrounding how young people use new technologies. Does it make sense to talk about a distinctive global culture of young people -- Digital Natives -- who have only known life in a digital age?
Professor Jason Kaufman on his analysis of Facebook.com profiles.
The Internet & Democracy Project talks to some well known digital activists about the trends and possibilities of digital activism.
Wrapping up a day of presentations, danah boyd, Amanda Lenhart, Janis Wolak, and Michele Ybarra take questions from the attendants of the April 30, 2008 meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.
Michele Ybarra speaks on the issues of sexual solicitation and cyberbullying in youth social network sites as part of the April 30, 2008 meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force in Washington, DC.
This short lecture was presented as part of the April 30, 2008 meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force in Washington, DC. The speaker is Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
This article examines American youth engagement in networked publics and considers how properties unique to such mediated environments (e.g., persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences) affect the ways in which youth interact with one another.
danah boyd, Berkman Fellow, gave a talk on "MyFriends, MySpace: American Youth Socialization on Social Network Sites."
