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
The work on this site is licensed under a CC-BY-NC. If you share or re-use any work found on the site, please credit the original author and the Digital Youth Project and link back to the Digital Youth Project.
Photo Credits: Ritchie Ly and Geert Allegaert.
Lisa Tripp
Personal Information
- Bio
Lisa received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego in 2002 and began collaborating on the digital youth research project while working as an ethnographer and associate director of USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML). Her research and teaching address young people and the media, with an emphasis on media education pedagogy and youth-produced media. She has worked as an ethnographer and educational program developer on a variety of projects with organizations including the UCSD’s Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence, and La Clase Mágica, as well as the Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project. At the IML, she helped develop professional development programs for teachers related to media arts and media literacy, and also conducted research related to those initiatives.
History
- Member for
- 1 year 39 weeks
- Blog
- View recent blog entries