DML2010

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Plenary, Friday, 5pm

Eszter Hargittai

  • Youth and digital literacy
  • http://webuse.org/pubs
  • Skill as point of entry
  • Opportunity for intervention, change

Challenges

  • Need for adults to teach, guide
  • Assessment, measurement of skills
  • Methodological challenge

Joseph Kahne

  • Mills College
  • http://www.civicsurvey.org/
  • "Are young ppl fully tapping the potential of our democratic institutions to change the world?"
  • "Can youth interest in new media be mobilized to support civic and political life in the public sphere?"
  • "Is new media changing how young people are participating in civic life and what we mean by civic life?"
  • What is distinction between civic + political?
    • Voting == political?

  • "Multi-generational group that shares a household and has economically-dependent youth within it."
  • "P.K." == "pre-kids"
  • "What is and what could be"
    • How does this research help "all kinds of parents"?

Focus on parents

  • Parents as collaborators

Family research

  • Annette Lareau
  • David T. Abalos
  • Black families
  • Steven Mintz
  • Arlie Russell

I've been meaning to make this video for a long time now: coming out on youtube

  • Jonathan Alexander
  • Elizabeth Losh
  • UC/Irvine
  • LGBT identity and new media online, Routledge 2010

Coding online spaces as "adult"

  • Rhetorics of "divide", "access"
  • Online resources enable experience, play w gay/queer subjectivities
    • Especially important for "rural" populations?
  • But does this Other the rural?

Coming out narrative as genre on YouTube

Borrowing from TV genres

  • Public service announcement (PSA)
    • Adults coming out connected to a political action
    • e.g., Prop 8, Same-sex marriage
  • Reality TV
    • "Mini-episodes" staged on YouTube
    • "Professionalized"

Who controls communication

  • Parents as agents in the narrative
    • "They can take away privileges ... phone ... computer"
  • Sometimes "parents [near]" mentioned in the description
    • Kids whispering
    • Music playing nearby
    • Coming out to Youtube before parents

Online research

  • Asking questions
  • Referring to other resources
  • Interacting w viewers in the comments

Drinking, drugs, sobriety

  • Discussing previous videos, events involving drinking
  • Recording drunken vids

Quotidian nature of coming out vids

  • "You're probably bored..."
  • "I know you've seen this before..."
  • "[Tell my story,] if I have one..."
    • As though there is a barometer of interest, or quality

User spondored archive

  • Youth representation
  • Helping other people coming out
  • Which requests generate responses, which don't?

Parody coming out videos

Aspiration

  • For those seeking net celebrity
    • Using annotation features to lead viewers to other social media outlets

Questions

  • Takedowns
    • Self?
    • DMCA
  • Privacy
  • Is there a "final" or "real" video?

Competing understandings of queer

  • Community, safety, solidarity, shared identity
  • Constantly disruptive, challenging, non-normative, destabilizing
    • Co-opted by anti-gay speaks?
    • Ted Haggard's coming out narrative involves queerness, sexual fluidity
    • Hence, he pushes the "fluidity" discourse toward a place of choice in which he is able to choose normative presentation, identity, behavior

Why don't some videos get comments?

  • Commercialization of videos
  • Young, attractive white boys appear to attract more comments
    • As compared with lesbian or people of color?
  • What kinds of identities are valorized on YouTube?
    • Dove-tails with who speaks in general on YT?
  • HRC, Human Rights Campaign, "learns from" YT vids
    • But can't incorporate images of youth

Emerging "allies" genre

  • Didactic information for queer allies
  • "Second wave" of vids following the coming out genre

Gestures toward legibility

  • "Read me as gay"
  • Coming out is problematized according to gender
    • Gender queer narratives
    • Coming out ... as what?

Jump offs


Race and Ethnicity I

Alexandrio Agloro

  • San Francisco State University

Stardoll

  • http://www.stardoll.com/
  • Re-running the doll study
  • Stardoll funded w American VC, 2006
  • 2009, 30m users
  • 2010, 50m users

MeDoll

  • Customizable doll
  • With social networking profile
  • Default= very thin, tall, medium brown skin+hair, short hair

3 weeks of doll-making

  • 4 girl participants
  • Kids seem to focus on hair first
  • Computers were slow initially, frustrating experience
  • New computers came in on week 3
    • Change of vibe in the lab

Heather Horst

White boys can't dance

  • Merging her interest in digital youth media and Jamaica
  • Looking at dancehall culture, slackness
  • "De-politicized" as compared with reggae

White people doing dutty wine

Jump off

  • Carolyn Cooper

Katynka Martínez

Home is where the humor is

  • San Francisco State University
  • Department of Raza Studies
  • Working with kids living around MacArthur Park
    • In an digital animation class

Kids making maps of their neighborhoods

  • Mostly Mexican, Salvadoran kids
  • Pico-Union, Koreatown
  • Comparing with Pac-man maze
  • Comparing with representations of LA in games
    • Re: True Crime: Streets of LA, GTA: San Andreas
    • Eddie: "[GTA] Captured the beauty of his [friend's] neighborhood"
    • Eddie: Capturing the orange sunset

Thinking with and through Pac-man

  • Maze, goals, ghosts, points

Lisa Nakamura

virtual labor migration in digital games: factionalized identites and racial minorities in world of warcraft

  • University of Illinois

Logic of games: race as algorithm

  • Identifying other actors as threatening based on racial characteristics

Playing games for money

Competitive Counterstrike

  • Danny "Fraud" Montana, Cuban
    • Best player in the world
    • Players tried to "rattle him" with racist trash talk

Gold farmer

  • Lau Liu
  • Disrespect, trash talking from other players
  • "I have a sense of inferiority"

Jump offs

Race and ethnicity II

  • Moderator: David Goldberg

danah boyd

  • Recounting story of race-coding blog post
  • Origins of various platforms:
    • MySpace, music industry LA
    • Facebook, Harvard
  • Identity-based movement
    • High school:Myspace::College:Facebook
  • Comparing "white flight", MySpace-Facebook
  • Moral Panic located on MySpace
    • Not so widely spread to Facebook?
    • Historical? People more comfortable with SNS in general?

Ilana Gershon

Honesty box

  • Facebook app, used primarily by AfAm users
  • Allows ppl to respond anonymously to question posted on the wall
  • Harmony saw possibility in anonymity
  • Usefulness of Honesty Box: "changeability" of personality, identity
    • Value of being thick-skinned

Jump offs

  • Silverstein
  • Snitherman, re: verbal insult games
    • Preparing people to face structural racism
    • Recognizing racism as not personal failure

Brendesha Tynes

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Method

Searching 48 randomly selected race-related Facebook and MySpace Groups

  • Took 50 pages of group discussion
  • 388 discussion threads
  • Thematic analysis

Jump offs

  • Byrne, 2007 (Facebook, MySpace, Blackplanet)

H. Erin Lee and S. Craig Watkins

What's race got to do with it? Race and social capital in the use of sns

  • Latinos 73% on 2 or more SNS (~50% on white, black)
  • More likely to come from communities in which some ppl aren't going to college and not on FB
  • Keeping in touch with close friends super important motivator for subscribing
  • "digital code-switching", users moving across different social spaces online

Jump offs

  • Eszter Harggitai, "Whose space?"
  • Robert Putnam, social capital

Sonia Livingstone, keynote

Youthful participation

  • Department of Media and Communications
  • London School of Economics
  • s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk

Historical, media-centered views

With everything mediated

  • Prefixing "digital" to "anything and everything" interesting
  • "Expertise stretched too far"
  • Intersections with "ever-widening array" of social practices

Struggles

Anxiety about skills

  • Over-estimating skills may lead to sense of inadequacy

Even locating a website, entering a URL may require

  • Family help
  • Considerable time
  • Confusion

Talking to "Megan from a working-class family"

  • Parents ID her as a whiz
  • But "when something goes wrong, she just moves to something new rather than working out what happened"

Civic engagement

Young ppl engaged online tend to be already engaged offline

  • Via family, e.g. child of poli sci prof

Open questions

Empirical

  • Is there change?
  • What is really going on?

Youth under scrutiny, control

  • Structural context
  • Examing conditions of youth everyday lives

Political

  • Stop being nice?

Mine

  • Thinking thru anxiety
  • Do our research methodologies

Jump offs

Jenkins response to Livingstone

Critical utopian

  • Utopian: what kind of world do you want?
  • Critical: what blockages are preventing us from achieving that dream? What do we have to overcome?
  • How do we get from here to there? The bridge?
    • Seeking models of success

"Digital revolution"

  • Powerful myth
  • "Internet changes everything"
    • World can change
    • World should change
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