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John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society
2009 JSB Symposium Keynote: danah boyd
This year's JSB Symposium featured danah boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
You can view her talk on "Youth-Generated Culture: Growing Up in an Era of Social Media":
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This provocative talk covered various aspects of social media and how today's youth embrace a wide array of tools. Whether on social network sites, texting, or blogging, youth leverage the power of social media to create, communicate, share, and learn.
The speaker examined the various emergent practices, focusing primarily on how American teenagers navigate the world of social
media as a part of everyday life. She explored inflections in privacy, sociality, and learning. She also discussed the costs and challenges of unequal access and the complications that occur when social stratification is reproduced in digital environments.
A panel discussion followed the talk. Panelists were:
- danah boyd
- John Seely Brown, a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation. Previously, he was chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), positions he held for nearly two decades.
At Xerox PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, ethnographic studies of the workscape, and nano technology. He also cofounded the Institute for Research on Learning. His personal research interests include the impact of globalization on business, the management of radical innovation, digital culture, ubiquitous computing, and organizational and individual learning.
JSB is a member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a trustee of Brown University and of the MacArthur Foundation. In 2004 he was inducted into the Industry Hall of Fame.
JSB has published more than 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business ReviewÕs 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, ÒResearch that Reinvents the Corporation,Ó and again in 2002 for his article ÒYour Next IT Strategy.Ó
With Paul Duguid he coauthored the acclaimed book, The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000), which has been translated into nine languages.
His most recent book, with John Hagel, The Only Sustainable Edge, is about new forms of collaborative innovation. It also provides a novel framework for understanding what is really happening in off-shoring in India and China and how each is inventing powerful new ways to innovate, learn, and accelerate capability building.
JSB received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from Brown University, London Business School, Claremont Graduate School, and the University of Michigan. He also serves on the External Advisory Board of the School of Information.
- Libby Hemphill, a visiting scholar in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. She studies distributed science and engineering project teams and is especially interested in how such teams leverage social media in service of their work. In her previous positions at the School of Information and Microsoft Research, she has explored the use of wikis, video conferencing, and E-mail lists in supporting newcomers to academic and industrial communities. She also heads Research at Work, a company that uses academic research findings to inform design of new social media tools and services. At the School of Information, she earned her Master of Science in Information in 2004 and will receive her Ph.D. in Information in December 2009.
- Cliff Lampe, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University. Lampe studies large-scale online interactions and how socio-technical tools can be used as architecture in online systems. He has studied such sites as Facebook, Slashdot, NewsTrust, and Everything2 as part of this research agenda. Topics he studies include the use of recommender systems to socialize new members of online communities, the role Facebook interaction has on the generation of social capital, and how users participate in sites over longer periods of time. He received his Ph.D. in Information in 2006 from the School of Information.
- Edward Vielmetti, blogging leader at AnnArbor.com. He writes the "FOIA Friday" column where he explores archives and public records through the use of the Freedom of Information Act to document and explore the workings of government and its impact on peopleÕs daily lives. Vielmetti is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a former program manager for the School of InformationÕs Community Information Corps. A native of the Upper Peninsula, he says he believes that Ann Arbor is overrated, and points to the prevalence of deep puddles of slush in the gutters of city streets in February as evidence.
- Paul Resnick, professor of information at the School of Information (moderator)
At the symposium, the recipient of the John Seely Brown Social Media Scholarship was recognized. Emily Rosengren, a junior concentrating in informatics with an emphasis on social computing and minoring in Japanese language, was selected for the scholarship, which was made possible by a gift from JSB and danah boyd. During her time at the University of Michigan, Rosengren has been a part of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Honors Program and the Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP), a living-learning community focused on community service and social justice.
Rosengren is actively involved with the MCSP, serving as a peer advisor to community service and helping to coordinate the University-Community film series, which is a partnership with the Ann Arbor District Library. She has worked as a research assistant in the Science of Networks in Communities lab under Noshir Contractor at Northwestern University and is currently working under Paul Resnick in the University of Michigan School of Information.
During her sophomore year, Rosengren was first introduced to the field of social media by taking SI 110: ÒIntroduction to Information Studies.Ó She was struck by how the issues of social media prompted her to look at things she uses every day in a new light and was fascinated by the way the field was both novel and extremely relevant.
About the Symposium
The John Seely Brown Symposium is sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information with support from a gift by John Seely Brown (a.k.a. "JSB"). Brown is an alumnus of U-M, having earned an MS in mathematics in 1964 and a Ph.D. in computer and communication sciences in 1972. He has been a strong supporter of SI for a number of years.
If you would like be kept abreast of information on the next John Seely Brown Symposium, please send E-mail to jsbsymposium@umich.edu.
Last updated: Oct 22, 2009
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danah boyd, the featured speaker at the 2009 John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society.
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