About Digital Youth
'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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Megan Finn
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Megan Finn is a PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information. As a Digital Youth researcher, Megan has been investigating the "technological careers" of UC Berkeley Freshmen, the Freshquest project. Her other research interests include information and organizations, technology adoption models, and information systems for responding to extreme events. Megan received her Masters from the School of Information in 2005 and her BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2000. At Michigan, Megan worked at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. She also spent several years in industry at Hewlett-Packard working in a group concerned with knowledge management.
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- Freshquest project website: http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/ikids/freshquest/
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