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Public Intellectuals: Theory and Practice 26 Aug 2013 | 12:48 pm
Today’s post represents my return from an extended summer hiatus with the blog, as well as the first day of classes for the new term. I wanted to share with you the syllabus for a new subject I am int...
“Sorry for Disturbing: We’re Trying to Change Brazil”: Brazilian Youth, Civic Media, and The Protests 16 Jul 2013 | 01:50 pm
This spring, my Civic Paths Research Group was lucky enough to be able to host a visit by Carla Mendonça, a journalist and a Doctoral candidate at the Research Center and Graduate Program on the Ameri...
“Decreasing World Suck”: Fan Communities, Mechanisms of Translation, and Participatory Politics 26 Jun 2013 | 11:08 am
Hi, guys. I have been taking some much needed down time this summer, putting the blog on hiatus, focusing on other writing projects, and putting in motion plans for new content in the fall. As a resul...
Raising Children in the Digital Age: An Interview with Lynn Scofield Clark (Part Three) 31 May 2013 | 03:10 pm
Your book is full of evocative phrases and concepts. One of my favorite is that of “emotional downsizing.” When and where does “emotional downsizing” occur and what does it tell us about the context i...
Raising Children in the Digital Age: An Interview with Lynn Scofield Clark (Part Two) 29 May 2013 | 02:48 pm
Another core theme running through the book has to do with different experiences and expectations about media depending on the economic class background of parents. How would you characterize those di...
Raising Children in the Digital Age: An Interview with Lynn Schofield Clark (Part One) 28 May 2013 | 12:57 pm
A few posts back, I shared with you my interview with art historian Amy F. Ogata, author of Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America. Ogata was nice enough to discuss ...
Hotspot3 — Civic Kickstarters 24 May 2013 | 04:16 pm
The Civic Paths Research Group, based at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, periodically issues “Hot-Spots,” clusters of short blog posts on related topics, which bring together a...
Is This the End of Television As We Know It? 22 May 2013 | 09:13 am
The Future of Television- Annenberg Innovation Lab Summit from Annenberg Innovation Lab on Vimeo. This video captures a really extraordinary and timely conversation that was recently hosted by the Ann...
The “Creative Child” Meets The “Digital Native”: An Interview with Amy F. Ogata (Part Two) 20 May 2013 | 02:07 pm
You write extensively in the book about the design of playrooms, suggesting that there is a shift in terms of children’s access to physical space within the home during this period. What factors led t...
The “Creative Child” Meets the “Digital Native”: An Interview with Amy Ogata (Part One) 17 May 2013 | 03:45 pm
The Post-War American family turns out to have been a much more complex phenomenon than our stereotypical images of Leave It To Beaver might suggest. The Baby Boom generation, invested in critiquing...
