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'Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures' is a three year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Read more
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Hi Dan, Actually, we don't
Hi Dan,
Actually, we don't see a lot of appeal to the moderators. However, the groups that were around for the longest, seemed to have the strictest moderators. These moderators required that members keep their "groups" hidden on their homepages and regularly deleted people who didn't abide by the guidelines of the discussion groups (whatever those were). On the shorter lived groups, the discussions tended to be more freewheeling and involved less regulation by the moderators. Of course, this is a small sample, so make of these conclusions what you will!