Youth and Media project

Digital Natives

Digital Natives focuses on the key legal, social, and political implications of a generation "born digital" - those who grow up immersed in digital technologies, for whom a life fully integrated with digital devices is the norm. By understanding young people’s interactions with digital media such as internet, cell phones and video games, we may address the issues their practices raise, learn how to harness the opportunities their digital fluency presents, and shape our regulatory and educational frameworks in a way that advances the public interest.

Youth and Media project

Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative

The Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative will explore policy issues that fall within three substantive clusters that emerge from youth's information and communications technology practices: Risky Behaviors and Online Safety; Privacy, Publicity and Reputation; and Youth Created Content and Information Quality.

Youth and Media project

Led by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, the Youth and Media project encompasses an array of research on youth and technology. By understanding young people’s interactions with digital media such as the Internet, cell phones and video games, we may address the issues their practices raise, learn how to harness the opportunities their digital fluency presents, and shape our regulatory and educational frameworks in a way that advances the public interest.

Youth and Media project

Youth in Developing Countries

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is engaged in a research project concerning the online safety risks to children in developing countries.

Youth and Media project

Born This Way Foundation Partnership

The Born This Way Foundation has partnered with the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The California Endowment and The Berkman Center at Harvard to explore the best ways to reach youth and create a new culture of kindness, bravery, acceptance and empowerment.