Anna van Someren and Henry Jenkins co-developed this presentation, which was used as the standard New Media Literacies keynote presentation at many 2008 events.

1. Anna van Someren
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
projectNML
connect communicate create collaborate
project new media literacies: education in a participatory culture

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13. is someone like jessica a “digital native”?

14. is someone like jessica a “digital native”?

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17. “digital natives vs. digital immigrants”
erases differences between experiences

18. “digital natives vs. digital immigrants”
overemphasizes & isolates digital technology

19. “digital natives vs. digital immigrants”
ignores connection between youth and adults

20. “digital natives vs. digital immigrants”
devalues what adults bring

21. “digital natives vs. digital immigrants”
devalues what adults bring

22. 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

23. our view: three core challenges
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the participation gap

24. our view: three core challenges
the transparency problem

25. our view: three core challenges
the ethics challenge

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

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

28. appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

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

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

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

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

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

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

35. circulations: the ability to shape the flow of media