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[Digital Brief] Digital Divide Persists Even as Lower-income Americans Make Gains in Tech Adoption (Pew)

March 23, 2017

The digital divides still exist. A Pew Recearch Center study," Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption, shows how the digital lives of lower- and higher-income Americans remain markedly different. Read more...

[Digital Brief] New Student Privacy Learning Tools (Harvard Berkman-Klein Center)

March 22, 2017

Youth & Media at the Harvard Law School-Berkman Klein Center released Privacy & Student Data: Companion Learning Tools. The Tools are designed to help school and district-level decision-makers to use to “create meaningful learning experiences with core...

[Digital Brief] How Youth Navigate the News Landscape (Knight Foundation)

March 21, 2017

Teens and young adults (ages 14-24) express low levels of trust in the news media and use a variety of strategies to confirm, verify, and clarify the stories they care about, according to a study produced by Data & Society and supported by the John S. and...

[Event] Transforming Schools and Classrooms: Empowering Student Voice and Civic Participation (April 5, 2017)

March 14, 2017

This event is part of the 2016-2017 Facing History and Ourselves Contemporary Issues Forum Series, in partnership with The Youth and Participatory Action Frame Project at Harvard University. Join us at Harvard University Gutman Library for an all-day...

[Digital Brief] News and America’s Kids: How Young People Perceive and Are Impacted by the News (common sense media)

March 08, 2017

How do young people get their news? how much do they trust different news sources? whether can spot "fake news"? A common sense media study, " News and America’s Kids: How Young People Perceive and Are Impacted by the News," finds that American kids (aged...

[Digital Brief] How Americans Encounter, Recall and Act Upon Digital News (Pew)

February 09, 2017

Social media and direct visits to news organizations’ websites are the most common sources for news online, according to a new study conducted by the Pew Research Center, "How Americans Encounter, Recall and Act Upon Digital News." The study also reveals...

Facing History with the YPP Action Frame––Focusing on Eyes on the Prize: Ain’t Scared of Your Jails

November 01, 2016

By Chaebong Nam, Adam Strom, and Danielle Allen

I am pleased and proud to see my colleagues from the YPP Action Frame Project collaborate with Facing History to explore how our ten reflection questions for budding civic agents can support the sorts of...

The Pitfalls...

October 31, 2016

By Chaebong Nam We have seen numerous cases of viral messages that move quickly from a digital context into mainstream media headlines, where they draw still more attention from the public. Celebrities or other influencers can contribute to such online...

What We Value: Equity, Efficacy, and Self-Protection

October 31, 2016

By Chaebong Nam What do we mean by “successful” civic-political agency? Equitable, efficacious, and self-protective civic-political agency is its core. So, what it would look like in practice? The short answer is political friendship (Allen, 2004). Equity...

About Student Privacy

August 26, 2016

The Youth and Media team at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University have released curricular materials for the first through third grade level on digital privacy and safe Internet use: The Internet and You: Curricular...

“When There Is No Center Left, How Can We Rebuild It?”

August 24, 2016

Danielle S. Allen’s Talk during the 2016 Frontiers of Democracy Conference Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and professor in Harvard’s Department of Government and Graduate School of Education, Danielle S. Allen...

[Digital Brief] Social Media Conversations about Race (Pew)

August 18, 2016

Pew Research Center recently released Social Media Conversations about Race. This report shows how social media users see, share, and discuss race and the rise of hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, based on the Twitter data garnered from July 12, 2013...

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