February 14th, 2008
Event Recap: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds—photos, podcasts and more: On January 28, the MacArthur Foundation co-hosted its second event in a virtual world.  The topic was ‘civil liberties and virtual worlds,’ featuring Jack Balkin of Yale Law School and Robin Harper of Linden Lab…

January 24th, 2008
Online Discussion: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds (January 28, Webcast and in Second Life): MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton will host a panel discussion on “Philanthropy and Virtual Worlds: Considering Civil Liberties” on January 28. 

August 27th, 2007
Early Days of Competition Draw Crowd: Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg of HASTAC (www.hastac.org) report in on the interest generated by the launch of the Digital Media and Learning Competition last week. The Competition will award…
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August 22nd, 2007
Group Discussion on “Virtual Success”—will you know it when you see it?: Lucy Bernholz hosts a discussion with the funding community on what will philanthropy accomplish in virtual worlds, and how will we know?
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August 14th, 2007
Competition Launches: HASTAC calls for applications to new Digital Media and Learning Competition: The MacArthur Foundation is supporting the Digital Media and Learning Competition under the leadership of HASTAC (www.hastac.org).  Designed to support new projects that might not come to the Foundation’s attention through other channels, the…
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August 9th, 2007
Katynka Martínez: Pacman, MacArthur Park, and El Imigrante: Katynka discusses new Los Angeles narratives created by urban youth. Who would be chasing Pacman if he were navigating the city streets of LA?

June 12th, 2007
Emerging Details for June 22nd Event: Bookmark this post for emerging details on the event mentioned by Jonathan Fanton.
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June 4th, 2007
The Future of Learning Institutions: It is time to consider how learning institutions can be transformed and supported in new distributed configurations.
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June 1st, 2007
Schools are a Last Vestige of an Industrial Age: What will schools be like when they act like information age organizations?
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May 31st, 2007
ThinkeringSpaces: Why is tinkering a useful way to learn?

May 31st, 2007
ThinkeringSpaces: A New Idea for Libraries: MacArthur Awards Institute of Design at IIT Grant to Rethink Libraries

May 29th, 2007
The Future of Institutions: How (if at all) should institutions change as a result of digital media?
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April 2nd, 2007
AERA Reception Hosted by MacArthur: If you’re in Chicago next week, we’re hosting a reception at the AERA conference, which will bring together education professionals from around the world.

November 17th, 2006
Antonio Lopez: Media Worlds in Collision: When examining digital media education and Native America, we need to challenge conventional thinking about schools, technology and pedagogy. The issue is not reducible to the digital divide, but rather should incorporate wisdom, community and…
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November 17th, 2006
Jessie Daniels: The Epistemology of White Supremacy: How do young people make sense of claims about race, racism and white supremacy they encounter online? 
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November 16th, 2006
Raiford Guins: A Positive Side to Web2.0: For issues of race and ethnicity, the web’s freedom from traditional broadcast restrictions is important.  Existing architectures can be occupied.  New information sources emerge for politics and organizing.  And some label sites are significantly broadening…

November 16th, 2006
Dara N. Byrne: beyond Media Literacy to Combat “Why Bother”: How can we become more active agents in helping young people of color to be more purposeful users of new media?
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November 15th, 2006
Mohan Dutta: Questions on Underserved youth and Internet health activism: How can the Internet serve as a platform to mobilize youth from underserved populations to address health disparities?
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November 15th, 2006
Guisela Latorre: Judy Baca, Digital Technology and Youth of Color: Chicana artist Judy Baca is a renowned muralist in the Los Angeles area whose work with youth and digital media has had exciting and unexpected results.

November 14th, 2006
Raiford Guins: User Generated Content?: Race & ethnicity online aren’t magically freed of biases, prejudices, or power relations. [Part I of II]
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