Invited talk at the Mujeres en el Cine y la Television, Mexico City.

1. Anna van Someren
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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13. from the digital divide
to new challenges:
the participation gap
the transparency problem
the ethics challenge

14. our view: three core challenges
“Increasingly, children and young people are divided
into those for whom the internet is an increasingly
rich, diverse, engaging and stimulating resource of
growing importance in their lives and those for whom
it remains a narrow, unengaging, if occasionally useful,
resource of rather less significance.”
- Sonia Livingstone, 2005
the participation gap

15. our view: three core challenges
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the participation gap

16. our view: three core challenges
the transparency problem

17. our view: three core challenges
the ethics challenge

18. performance collective intelligence
play
networking
multitasking appropriation
negotiation
transmedia navigation
simulation distributed cognition
judgment

19. multitasking:
the ability to scan one’s environment, shifting
focus as needed to salient details

20. play: the capacity to experiment with your
surroundings as a form of problem-solving

21. networking: the ability to search for,
synthesize, and disseminate information

22. collective intelligence: the ability to pool
knowledge and compare notes with others
toward a common goal

23. appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

24. appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

25. appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

26. appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

27. creator
owner remixer
appropriation: the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

28. integrated learning

29. collective intelligence: the ability to pool
knowledge and compare notes with others
toward a common goal

30. collective intelligence: the ability to pool
knowledge and compare notes with others
toward a common goal

31. performance: the ability to adopt
alternative identities for the purpose of
improvisation and discovery

32. performance: the ability to adopt
alternative identities for the purpose of
improvisation and discovery

33. avansom@mit.edu