Digital Diversity: How Circumstances Shape Youth Digital Media Practices
The 2019 Connected Learning Summit, held at the University of California, Irvine (Oct. 2, 2019 Pre-Conference - Oct. 3-5, 2019) featured some provocative talks, inspiring attendees to consider what role they can play in addressing some of the big issues society is facing in a digital world and how civic engagement fits in. Henry Jenkins, S. Craig Watkins, Mizuko Ito and Katie Salen joined for a discussion about digital youth in the talk, “Digital Diversity: How Social, Cultural and Real Life Circumstances Shape Youth Digital Media Practices.” The Digital Diversity talk covered a myriad of topics about digital youth and, unsurprisingly, concerns about screen [...]