New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.org

 

Learning In, With and For The Social Web Saturday, October 15, 11:15 a.m. Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue

The Social Web has substantially lowered technological barriers for self-preservation, interaction and information management. Popular discourse stresses the fluency and effortlessness with which adolescents and young adults navigate and apply these new spaces and tools. However, the “digital native” myth rather obscures the fact that a responsible, self-determined and reflected use of digital media requires various skills and knowledge. The presentation will identify main practices of social web use, their connection to developmental tasks of adolescences, and their consequences for social networks and public spheres. It will then discuss critical skills needed to navigate these social worlds (which bring the “virtual” and the “real”) and suggest strategies and mechanisms to foster learning in, with and for the social web.

Jan-Hinrik Schmidt: Dr. Schmidt is senior researcher for digital interactive media and political communication at the Hans-Bredow-Institute, an independent media research institute based in Hamburg (Germany). His research interests focus on the practices and consequences of the social web, mainly the structural changes in identity management, social networks, the public sphere and privacy.

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