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From: Sandra Cortesi
Dear Friends,
It is our great pleasure to share with you the announcement of a new
report from the Youth and Media Team on "Youth and Digital Media: From
Credibility to Information Quality." Thank you to our Youth and Media
team and members of the Berkman faculty, staff, and broader network
for their terrific contributions to this paper and our ongoing work.
More information and the full announcement is below. We invite you to
share this report widely with colleagues, students, friends, and
others who may have an interest in this area, and we welcome your
feedback and questions.
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is
pleased to share a substantial new report from the Youth and Media
project: "Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information
Quality" by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin Malik, & Ashley Lee.
Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality
framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the
ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information
online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices
of content creation, levels of new literacies, general digital media
usage, and social patterns affect these activities.
A review of selected literature at the intersection of digital media,
youth, and information quality—primarily works from library and
information science, sociology, education, and selected ethnographic
studies—reveals patterns in youth’s information-seeking behavior, but
also highlights the importance of contextual and demographic factors
both for search and evaluation. To access the full report and
additional material, please visit:
http://youthandmedia.org/infoquality
Key Findings:
1. Search shapes the quality of information that youth experience online.
2. Youth use cues and heuristics to evaluate quality, especially
visual and interactive elements.
3. Content creation and dissemination foster digital fluencies that
can feed back into search and evaluation behaviors.
4. Information skills acquired through personal and social activities
can benefit learning in the academic context.
"Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality"
lays the foundation and raises questions for further explorations in
this area. The report also encourages a public policy discussion on
youth, digital media, and information quality issues. We hope you will
take the time to review the report, to build upon it, and to share it
with interested colleagues and networks.
We wish to thank all of our wonderful collaborators at the Berkman
Center, our friends at the Harvard Law School Library, and the
participants of a workshop on information quality for their valuable
contributions and their important work in the field. The report builds
upon research enabled by generous grants from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick
Foundation.
As always, we welcome your feedback.
Urs Gasser, John Palfrey, Sandra Cortesi, and the Youth and Media team
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Urs Gasser, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law; Vice Dean, Library
and Information Resources, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director,
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Sandra Cortesi, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Contact us: youthandmedia(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu
Website:
http://www.youthandmedia.org
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
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