To Be Young, Digital and Black

UNCF Digital Media and Learning in Multicultural Contexts Public Forum Series

Leadership Center Auditorium Morehouse College, Atlanta

Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:00 p m – 8:30 p m

A Project of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Initiative

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Smith University in Charlotte, NC, and will focus on institutions. Sincerely, the influence of social sites like MySpace and Facebook, the applications and policy implications of digital media Sincerely, discusses how technology is transforming America’s and learning. We welcome you to Morehouse and hope that this forum will serve as the beginning of one classrooms and examines how on-line “digital gates” of the most critical emerging discussions of the digital age. reinforce race and class divisions. We invite you to participate in those forums as well. All three of these events will be available via the Sincerely, In his presentation, Dr. Watkins will provide an overview Internet synchronously through streaming video and of the landscape and culture of the broad community of asynchronously through video webcasts. They will be Robert M. Franklin “digital natives” and offer some specific insights into how accessible from the UNCF Web site at www.UNCF.org. Robert M. Franklin African American youth and other youth of color interact within the digital culture—noting the challenges as well As the largest provider of scholarships and fellowships as opportunities they often find. to African American students and a key player in efforts to build the capacity of historically black colleges

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and universities, UNCF is ideally situated to help Anna Everett (ed.), Learning Race and Ethnicity: disseminate the findings of digital media and learning Youth and Digital Media (MIT Press 2007). 4:30 p m – 5:45 p m research efforts and recruit a diverse pool of talented Reception young scholars to pursue careers in the emerging field. Mimi Ito and Sonia Baumer, et.al. Hanging Out, Developing and recruiting minority scholars—in both Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and the fields central to digital media and learning and for Learning with New Media (MIT Press, 2009). 6 p m – 6:15 p m the academy more broadly—are urgent priorities for our organization. Henry Jenkins, Confronting the Challenges of Welcome Participatory Culture: Media Education for the Through this public forum series, we hope to spur 21st Century (MIT Press 2009). Clarissa Myrick-Harris, Ph.D. a critical mass of students and faculty at UNCF- Director, UNCF Institute for Capacity Building member institutions as well as other HBCUs and Tara McPherson (ed.), Digital Youth, Innovation, Curriculum and Faculty Enhancement Program minority-serving institutions to investigate current and the Unexpected (MIT Press 2007). and future opportunities for research, careers and Karl W. Reid, Ed.D. civic engagement that are informed by innovative Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin (eds.), Senior Vice President, UNCF Academic Programs uses of digital media. In addition, we will launch Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility and Strategic Initiatives the UNCF Digital Media in Multicultural Contexts (MIT Press 2007). Virtual Community to provide an arena for continuous Robert M. Franklin, Ph.D. communication about these opportunities among our S. Craig Watkins, The Young and the Digital: What President, Morehouse College stakeholders within historically black colleges and the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and universities and minority-serving institutions and to Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future Craig Wacker, M.A. facilitate their participation in the larger Digital Media (Beacon Press 2009). Program Officer, Digital Media and Learning and Learning Research Hub. MacArthur Foundation

For more information about the MacArthur Foundation’s digital media and learning initiative, please visit www. 6:15 p m – 7 p m digitallearning.macfound.org. See also the following Presentation works, which have been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: S. Craig Watkins, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film, Graham W. Bader, Civic Life Online: Learning How Sociology and African American Studies Digital Media Can Engage Youth University of Texas at Austin (MIT Press 2007).

Jessie Daniels, Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009). TO BE YOUNG, DIGITAL AND BLACK 7 UNCF Digital Media and Learning in Multicultural Contexts Featured Speaker PANELISTS Public Forum Series S. Craig Watkins, Ph.D. Leadership Center Auditorium Craig Wacker, M.A. Morehouse College, Atlanta Dr. S. Craig Watkins is an internationally- Program Officer, MacArthur Foundation recognized thought leader in the emerging field of youth and digital media. His newest work, The Craig Wacker is a program officer in the MacArthur Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative, a 7 p m – 8 p m Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere strategy of the foundation’s Program on Human and Panel Discussion Media Means for Our Future (Beacon Press 2009), Community Development. Before joining the foundation, is based on survey research, in-depth interviews he worked as an analyst in the Office of Management and S. Craig Watkins, Ph.D. and fieldwork with teens, young 20-somethings, Budget in Washington, DC, focusing on K-12 education University of Texas at Austin teachers, parents and technology advocates. The policy. Wacker also has served as a Congressional Fellow Young and the Digital explores young people’s on Sen. Edward Kennedy’s staff; as a research associate Tarshia L. Stanley, Ph.D. dynamic engagement with social media, on-line at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Associate Professor of English games, mobile phones and communities like Teaching; and on assignment at the World Bank Institute Spelman College Facebook and MySpace. of the World Bank Group. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from Grinnell College and a master’s degree Michael Hodge, Ph.D. Dr. Watkins is an associate professor in the in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology departments of Radio-Television-Film and Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin. Morehouse College Sociology and the Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Craig Wacker, M.A. Austin. He was selected to join the MacArthur Michael Hodge, Ph.D. MacArthur Foundation Foundation Series on “Youth, Digital Media and Learning,” a collection of scholars, visionaries Dr. Michael Hodge is associate professor and chair of the Deven Sanders and practitioners from across the world to explore Department of Sociology at Morehouse College. A major 2009 Spelman College Graduate the intersection of digital media, everyday life and focus of his work explores the innovative applications learning. His work on this groundbreaking project of technology in the development of undergraduate Xavier Stephen Brandon focuses on race, learning and the growing culture courses across the curriculum. A “high-end” user of Morehouse College Student of gaming. technology for instructional delivery, he has developed innovative methods for collecting research data using His previous books include Hip Hop Matters: classroom management systems. Dr. Hodge’s use of on- 8 p m – 8:25 p m Politics, Pop Culture and the Struggle for the line and digital technologies has facilitated his research Audience Interaction Soul of a Movement (Beacon Press 2005) and on at-risk sexual behaviors among African Americans. Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production His most recent publication, Voices from Beneath the of Black Cinema (University of Chicago Press Veil: Analysis of the Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs 8:25 p m - 8:30 p m 1998). Currently, Dr. Watkins is launching a new of Middle Class African Americans (University Press Closing digital media research initiative that focuses on of America 2009), focuses on the abilities of African the use and evolution of social media platforms. American middle class individuals to demonstrate great success against many odds. Dr. Hodge earned his Dr. Watkins earned his doctoral degree from the doctoral degree from the University of Florida. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

This public forum series is made possible by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Tarshia L. Stanley, Ph.D. Xavier Stephen Brandon

Dr. Tarshia L. Stanley is an associate professor in Xavier Stephen Brandon is a graduating senior the department of English at Spelman College. She majoring in computer science at Morehouse regularly teaches courses in film studies that explore College. He is co-director of college clubs About the UNCF Institute for Capacity Building About the MacArthur Foundation images of women. Dr. Stanley uses digital media as a for the Summerbridge Breakthrough Alumni learning tool in her classes and encourages students Network. In this capacity, he assists in the The UNCF Institute for Capacity Building (ICB) was The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to use new media to create projects in and outside the development of intervention strategies for established in May 2006 to support strengthening the supports creative people and effective institutions classroom. Currently she is producing a documentary decreasing high school dropout rates, increasing capacity of the 39 UNCF-member private historically committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful on black women in technology. She has authored several enrollment and interest in higher education, providing black colleges and universities in the areas of world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, articles that examine the images of black women in college and career readiness resources and supporting fund-raising, enrollment and retention, academic the foundation works to defend human rights, advance African American, African and Caribbean cinema as well teacher recruitment and retention efforts. Xavier also programming and faculty development, financial global conservation and security, make cities better as articles on black female iconography in American serves as the senior intern for the Bonner/Adams management, campus facilities and executive places and understand how technology is affecting popular culture. She edited The Encyclopedia of Hip Scholarship Program at Morehouse and as campus leadership and governance. The existence of the children and society. In 2006, MacArthur launched its Hop Literature (Greenwood Press, 2009) and is at work lead for Morehouse student leaders in the outlet college Institute for Capacity Building underscores the digital media and learning initiative to explore how on a manuscript entitled Mothering Our Daughters: ministry of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. strategic intent of UNCF to support the efforts of its digital media are changing the way young people Mediating the Messages, which stems from her work member institutions, within their unique traditions, learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life and on a conference by the same name that she has hosted missions and circumstances, to remain viable, what that means for their learning in the 21st century. at Spelman College since 2002. Dr. Stanley received her compelling and competitive choices for the growing More information is available at www.macfound.org/ undergraduate degree from Duke University and her number of African American and other students of education. master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of color seeking a college education. Florida, where she was a McKnight Doctoral Fellow.

About UNCF Devan Sanders

UNCF—the United Negro College Fund—is the Deven Sanders, a native of Richmond, CA, graduated nation’s largest and most effective minority education from Spelman College in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree organization. To serve youth, the community and in comparative women’s studies and a concentration the nation, UNCF supports students’ education in film and media. Her passionate interest in women and development through scholarships and other in media and film has given her the opportunity to programs, strengthens its 39 member colleges serve on a panel for the “Oprah Winfrey Show” and to and universities and advocates for the importance co-create her first documentary film, “From Root to of minority education. UNCF institutions and other STEM: Spelman Women and Their Journeys Through historically black colleges and universities are highly the Sciences.” The documentary focuses on African effective, awarding 18 percent of African American American scientists in wide-ranging professions who baccalaureate degrees. UNCF administers more have graduated from Spelman College within the past than 400 programs, including scholarship, internship seven years. Sanders currently resides in Atlanta and and fellowship, mentoring, summer enrichment and has aspirations to own her own television network and curriculum and faculty development programs. Today, to produce films that portray multi-dimensional images UNCF supports more than 60,000 students at over 900 of all people. colleges and universities across the country. Its logo features the UNCF torch of leadership in education and its widely recognized motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”® Learn more at www.UNCF.org. UNCF Institute for Capacity Building 229 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 2350 Atlanta, GA 30303

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