Oct 15, 2012
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Oh my gorsh! Look at this. My colleague from the EDGE Lab Melanie McBride and I talking at Tiff Nexus New Media Literacies Conference here in Toronto, April 20th 2012. Mel sounding super smart, and me saying the word "really" a lot of times.
Hooray for this - trying to start conversations about respecting children and the play they do, and adults' responsibility to check themselves and think about power in relation to children in all kinds of places.
Oh, delicious...
Welp, here I am getting all nerdy and excited about work again. Just had a crazy trans-Can Skype meeting with folks involved in this project we're working on - a research project looking at how children interact with social media platforms, and how those interactions inform the ways they relate to people online and offline.
My job this summer is to work on the data collection and analysis part of this project, and so I've been listening to audio interviews and reading transcriptions 'til the cows come home. It's been a fascinating and sometimes exhausting exercise, and I'm realizing more and more how doing social research with children requires skills and experience that need to be specifically cultivated. It's not enough to be a teacher or a parent - there are a million ways that the power imbalance between children and adults can mess up having an authentic interaction.
Thinking about this makes me really excited, about how to make things better for kids, get researchers being more reflective and effective and ethical. More soon about this.