Connecting with the Wired Generation

This event took place March 28 - 29, 2003 and was webcast live from this page. Archived video of the speeches and panels, and links to some of the PowerPoint and other presentations, can be accessed by clicking the links in the schedule below.

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Webcast & Presentation Schedule

Keynote Speech (QuickTime)
Friday, March 28, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall
Growing up Digital and the Emerging Digital Vernacular
Keynote Speaker

• John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and former director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
  • John Seely Brown's presentation (pdf)
  • John Seely Brown paper on "Growing Up Digital" (pdf)

Opening remarks
Saturday, March 29, 9:15 a.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

Learning and Communicating in a Digital World (QuickTime)
9:30 - 10:40 a.m.
How young people are using digital devices and the Internet as learning and communication tools
Panelists

• Mizuko Ito, cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to media and communications, and a visiting scholar at the USC Annenberg School for Communication
  • Mizuko Ito presentations and links:
  • Conference presentation (PowerPoint)
  • Japan Media Review article on mobile phones
  • Paper on youth and mobile phones
  • Mizuko Ito's home page
    
• Christopher Pitzak, vice president of strategy and business development for Jippii USA, Inc.
• Harrison “Lee” Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a research center that examines the social impact of the Internet
  • Lee Rainie's presentation (PowerPoint)
• Douglas Thomas, associate professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and author of "Hacker Culture"
• Joseph Turow, professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School For Communication and co-editor of a forthcoming book about families and the Internet
  • Joseph Turow presentation (PowerPoint)
• Mindy McAdams, professor of journalism and the Knight Chair for Journalism Technologies and the Democratic Process at the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida (moderator)

The New News Consumers (QuickTime)
10:50 - noon
How kids get news, information and entertainment - online and off
Panelists

• Stephanie Yost Cameron, general counsel and senior vice president, business & legal affairs, at NeoPets Inc.
  • NeoPets Web page
  • NeoPets Youth Study 2003 Web page
  • NeoPets Press Kit
• Jarl Mohn (known as Lee Masters since his days in radio), manager of The Mohn Family Foundation and a director of The Game Show Network and E.W. Scripps Company
• Duane Sweep, director of media research at MORI Research
  • Duane Sweep presentation (PowerPoint)
• Vicki Whiting, president, editor and founder of Kid Scoop, a weekly newspaper feature geared to children ages 7 to 12 that appears in nearly 200 newspapers
  • Vicki Whiting presentations and links:
  • Kid Scoop - 9/11 (pdf)
  • Kid Scoop - Hamsters (pdf)
  • Kid Scoop - Parrots (pdf)
  • My Kid Scoop (pdf)
  • Teacher Scoop (pdf)
  • E-Scoop Web page
  • New York Times Learning Network Web page
    San Francisco Chronicle NIE Lesson Library Web page
• Nora Paul, director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota (moderator)

Playing Games and Gaming the News (QuickTime)
1:15 - 2:25 p.m.
The video game generation and how media sites can use games to deliver news and information
Panelists

• Will Harvey, founder and executive vice president of There, the online getaway to playing and talking naturally while having fun and making friends
  • Will Harvey's presentation (PowerPoint)
• Yasmin Kafai, associate professor of learning and instruction and director of the KIDS research project at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and author of "Minds in Play: Computer Game Design as a Context for Children's Learning"
• Glenn Thomas, co-founder of Smashing Ideas Inc. and co-developer of an interactive mapping application for the Everett Herald entitled "Waterfront Renaissance"
  • Glenn Thomas' links:
  • Everett Herald Waterfront Renaissance
  • What Can Computer Games Teach Journalists? (Pew Center for Civic Journalism luncheon session, sponsored by The Pew Center and AEJMC's Civic Journalism Interest Group, August 8, 2002, Miami Beach, FL)
  • Playing the News (University of Minnesota Institute for New Media Studies)
  • Institute for Interactive Journalism (University of Maryland J-Lab)
  • NHPR Budget Builder (New Hampshire Public Radio)
• Ashley Wells, senior producer of interactive content at MSNBC.com specializing in innovative and engaging new story forms and how people use them
  • MSNBC.com Web page
• Will Wright, chief designer and co-founder of Maxis game development studio and creator of SimCity and The Sims
• Pete Deemer, co-founder of GameSpot and former senior vice president at CNET Networks (moderator)

Reconnecting with Young People (QuickTime)
2:35 - 3:45 p.m.
Media sites that are reaching young people and involving them in the news process
Panelists

• James Bower, a founder of Whyville and a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center and the University of Texas, San Antonio
  • James Bower's presentation (PowerPoint)
  • Whyville Web page
• Jean Chen, online editor at Youth Radio
  • Youth Radio Web page
• Rob Curley, general manager of World Online, the Internet division of The Lawrence Journal-World
  • Lawrence Journal-World Web page
• Tim Levell, editor of the BBC's CBBC Newsround and the website at www.bbc.co.uk/newsround, the world's only daily updated news site for children and young people aged 8 to 14
  • BBC's CBBC Newsround Web page
• Joel Schwartzberg, editor and programming director for Time Inc. Interactive, with oversight of TIME For Kids Online and Sports Illustrated for Kids Online
  • Joel Schwartzberg presentation (PowerPoint)
  • Time for Kids Web page
• Elizabeth Osder, visiting professor of journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and deputy editor of the Online Journalism Review (moderator)

In Their Own Words (QuickTime)
3:55 - 5:05 p.m.
Young people - from pre-teen to college age - describe their technology and media habits
Panelists

• Stephanie Danner, 10, is an avid Internet and NeoPets fan who dances, rides horses and participates in the Math Olympiads for her elementary school
• Mia Kabasakalis, 14, writes for TIME for Kids "Kid Scoops" and is a 4-handicap golfer who recently got her dream assignment - an interview with Tiger Woods
• Arie Knyazev, 9 1/2, is in the Gifted and Talented Education program at his elementary school, plays flute and piano, has a green belt in Karate, is a huge Neopets and computer games fan and is studying HTML to do his own Web page
• Nzinga Moore, 21, is a producer/reporter for Youth Radio in Berkeley and a radio and television major at San Francisco State University.
• Margarita Rossi, 19, writes stories for Youth Radio, including a piece on "Why I Don't Watch Mainstream News," and is a student at City College of San Francisco
• Amy Shatto, 14, recently learned HTML, DHTML, Java, Perl, and CSS, wants to be a web designer and is a fan of Whyville and NeoPets
• Neil Chase, managing editor at CBS MarketWatch.com, board member of the Online News Association and former professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (moderator)

Co-Sponsored by:

• U C Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
• USC Annenberg School for Communication
• Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism

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