Current
Annenberg Innovation Lab
The Annenberg Innovation Lab, situated within the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, focuses on culture as the basis for the creation of innovative technologies, applications, new media forms, and new communication practices. The Innovation Lab is a vehicle for an ongoing knowledge exchange with public institutions and private sector firms that are on the front lines of socio-technological change in communications. The Lab places a large emphasis on cross-disciplinary innovation among social sciences, cultural theory and computer sciences as it develops projects designed for practical application and social impact.
RFK-LA (Legacy in Action)
Located at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools - the site of of the former Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles - RFK-LA is a non-profit educational program and community learning center for new media studies and activities, dedicated to the social justice values of Robert F. Kennedy, where the everyday is transformed and the dreams of what is possible are invoked and explored.
Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools
A special cluster of six pilot schools serving as role models for educational innovation, and as research and development sites for effective teaching and learning in urban public schools. These "Community Schools" are located in the Wilshire Center/Koreatown area of central Los Angeles, serving local students from Pico Union and other neighboring communities, which, comprise the most densely populated area in California.
Civic Paths
This project explores continuities between online participatory culture and civic engagement. Premised on a dynamic understanding of citizenship, we analyze how participatory culture interactions encourage young people to create, discuss and organize to engage with specific civic issues and events. We then ask how these interactions lead to new forms of social organizing and action as we map the trajectory from popular media fandom to political engagement.
Past
DML Central
DMLcentral.net is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. We think digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one another.
New Hampshire's Department of Education
From 2009-2010 NML collaborated with the Office of Educational Technology, which provides leadership and assistance to schools regarding the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into the teaching and learning process.
The GoodPlay Project: Ethical Perspectives on Young Person's Use of Digital Media
Principal Investigator: Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education
The GoodPlay Project is exploring the ethical character of young people's online activities. The broad aim of the project is to discover how young people are changing because of digital media, with a particular focus on the ethical fault-lines that surface online, including those related to identity, privacy, ownership and authorship, credibility, and participation. The Good Play team is studying youth ages 15-25 who participate in online games, social networking sites, and other online communities. The project seeks to uncover the meanings of "good play" online and to develop curricular materials that support reflection about digital ethics.
Indiana University Center for Research on Learning and Technology
A team at Indiana University is developing classroom assessments, implementing the Teacher Strategy Guide & Learning Library, and helping document learning outcomes. This collaboration is directed by Dan Hickey, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences. He studies formative assessment, program evaluation, and situated cognition, and refines participatory approaches to assessment, motivation, and management. This collaboration between Project New Media Literacies and Indiana University is supported by the MacArthur Foundation via the 21st Century Assessment for Situated and Sociocultural Learning project, directed by James Paul Gee at Arizona State University.
Wyn Kelley
Wyn Kelley, of the Literature Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is author of Melville's City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996). Associate Editor of the Melville Society journal Leviathan, and editor of the Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, she has published in a number of journals and collections, including Melville and Hawthorne: Writing Relationship, Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick, Melville and Women, "Whole Oceans Away": Melville in the Pacific, and The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. A founding member of the Melville Society Cultural Project, she has worked closely with the New Bedford Whaling Museum on a number of initiatives: lecture series, conferences, exhibits, and a scholarly archive. Her next project is a Blackwell Short Guide to Herman Melville.
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley
Over the past twenty years, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Artistic Director of Mixed Magic Theatre, has written/produced/directed "From the Bard to the Bounce: A Hip-Hop Shakespeare Experience", "Kwanzaa Song", "The Great Battle for the Air", "About Me and the Adventure" (with Community Prep and the Rhode Island School for the Deaf), "How the World Came to North Kingstown Cafe" (an American historical drama for the North Kingstown Millenium), "The Spirit Warrior's Dream" (at the University of Rhode Island, Long Island University, Johnson & Wales University, and Marin Academy in San Rafael, California), "Harlem Renaissance Project" (with Blackstone Academy), and four Annual Black History Month Celebrations at Portsmouth Abbey. Pitts-Wiley was the Resident Artist at Brown University Summer High School in 2001. In all of these collaborations, students had the opportunity to work with professional theatre artists and musicians.
