Interview: danah boyd
danah boyd is the co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Youth and Media Policy Working Group and examines everyday practices involving social media, with specific attention to youth participation.

Book Review: Drop That Knowledge
A review of Elisabeth Soep & Vivian Chavez’s Drop That Knowledge: Youth radio stories.

Information Quality, Youth, and Media: A Research Update
This article, from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative, discusses a new literature review in the making, where one of the goals is to understand how the challenges that youth face are modulated by variables such as immersion in digital media, access, and cognitive development.

Interview: Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins is the principal investigator for Project New Media Literacies and the author of 13 books on various aspects of media, digital media and pop culture.

Global Kids uCreate Project: Extending Collaborative Learning to Incarcerated Youth in Two Cities
This article describes a pilot project that linked youth detention centers with community libraries in two cities, to work specifically with incarcerated youth and new learning technologies.

When You Can’t Bring Your Classroom to the World, Bring the World into Your Classroom
For educators aiming to teach global perspectives, we teach students in the U.S. and the West Bank to use current e-technologies so they can easily craft and share their personal stories, whether through iMovie, blogging, online discussion boards, or some other tech-based means of communication, stressing the importance of individual experience and storytelling.

A Web 2.0 Toolkit for Educators
If you are looking to integrate Web 2.0 tools within after-school programs, youth media projects or in the classroom, you will find the following technology useful.

Youth Connected: Technology and Journalism Shape World Views
Creating an appetite for quality international news among the next generation is critical to fostering a healthy media landscape in the future.