Youth Online: Designing for Participation and Collaboration

Date: Friday, May 22, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:LBNL Bldg. 50F, Room 1647

Speaker:
Andrés Monroy-Hernández
MIT Media Lab

Abstract:
The Scratch Online Community is a website that allows kids and
novices from around the world to learn how to program and share
their own interactive media. In two years, more than 400,000 Scratch
projects, ranging from video games to animated stories to science
simulations to political satire, have been uploaded to the website.
As part of his research, Andrés developed and currently manages the
Scratch website and tries to understand how to design online social
systems that engage young people in creative and collaborative
participation. Andrés will talk about the social patterns that have
emerged in the community around issues like remixing, moral
judgment, cooperation and group making and how they guide the design
and administration of the community.

Host of Seminar:

    Cecilia Aragon