Re: [Air-L] Research about informal education on YouTube (Julia Lowe)
Hi Julia, Regarding informal education, educational spaces, and educational communities on YouTube (e.g. the Nerdfighters), you will want to reach out to my fellow Ph.D. Candidate at USC Annenberg, Neta Kligler Vilenchik - kliglerv [at] usc [dot] edu. Her dissertation is on youth civic engagement online, and she has conducted a large case study with the Nerdfighters. Here is a specific link to a report she wrote for the MacArthur Digital Media & Learning Hub on fan community spaces and informal learning among youth: http://dmlhub.net/publications/decreasing-world-suck-fan-communities-mechani... Please also see this recent interview series between Henry Jenkins and Patricia Lange ( http://henryjenkins.org/2014/03/kids-on-youtube-an-interview-with-patricia-l...) on Lange's new book, *Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies (http://www.amazon.com/Kids-YouTube-Technical-Identities-Literacies/dp/161132... <http://www.amazon.com/Kids-YouTube-Technical-Identities-Literacies/dp/1611329361/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1389385033&sr=8-2&>)* Best, Meryl -- Meryl Alper Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California malper@usc.edu merylalper.com
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