Anna van Someren
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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from the digital divide
to new challenges:
the participation gap
the transparency problem
the ethics challenge

our view: three core challenges
“Increasingly, children and young people are divided
into those for whom the internet is an increasingly
rich, diverse, engaging and stimulating resource of
growing importance in their lives and those for whom
it remains a narrow, unengaging, if occasionally useful,
resource of rather less significance.”
- Sonia Livingstone, 2005
the participation gap

our view: three core challenges
≠
the participation gap

our view: three core challenges
the transparency problem

our view: three core challenges
the ethics challenge

performance collective intelligence
play
networking
multitasking appropriation
negotiation
transmedia navigation
simulation distributed cognition
judgment

multitasking:
the ability to scan one’s environment, shifting
focus as needed to salient details

play: the capacity to experiment with your
surroundings as a form of problem-solving

networking: the ability to search for,
synthesize, and disseminate information

collective intelligence: the ability to pool
knowledge and compare notes with others
toward a common goal

appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

creator
owner remixer
appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

integrated learning

collective intelligence: the ability to pool
knowledge and compare notes with others
toward a common goal

collective intelligence: the ability to pool
knowledge and compare notes with others
toward a common goal

performance: the ability to adopt
alternative identities for the purpose of
improvisation and discovery

performance: the ability to adopt
alternative identities for the purpose of
improvisation and discovery

avansom@mit.edu