April 26, 2008
K-12--The Digital Age--Do Kids Now Learn Differently?
Plenary Session at the Education Writer’s Association Annual Conference, Chicago....
April 23, 2008
From MySpace to HipHop: New Media in the Everyday Lives of Youth
Public forum presented by the MacArthur Foundation, Common Sense Media, and the Stanford University School of Education. Stanford University....
February 21, 2008
The Social Life of Mobile Media
University of Wisconsin-Madison Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies Lecture Series....
December 14, 2007
Chronicling Portable Practices in Urban Environments
A keynote talk for Research methods in informal and mobile learning: How to get the data we really want, Institute of Education, London....
December 6, 2007
DIY Media and Amateur Cultural Production
A talk for the Yahoo! Research Big Thinkers speaker series...
November 21, 2007
The Social Life of Mobile Media
A keynote presentation at Mobilefest in São Paulo, Brazil....
June 9, 2007
Do-It-Yourself Media Cultures
A keynote presentation for the ESRC Seminar Series Final Conference: Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures...
May 1, 2007
Do-It-Yourself: Media Culture and Peer-to-Peer Learning in a Networked Age
Keynote address, First Annual USC Teaching with Technology Conference....
April 27, 2007
Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
A plenary panel with Cory Ondrejka and Trebor Scholz, moderated by Thomas Malone. Media in Transition 5, MIT...
April 4, 2007
Do-It-Yourself: Media Culture in a Networked Age
A keynote address for the annual USC Webfest awards for student web site creators....
March 31, 2007
Korean and Japanese Animation Today
A screening and panel discussion at the Egyptian Theater, featuring films and a panel discussion with directors Bum-Jin Joe and Mamoru Hosoda. [link]...
March 14, 2007
Amateur and Do-it-Yourself Media Production in a Networked Age
A brown bag lunch seminar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley, 12-1:30pm. [link]...
March 9, 2007
Amateur Cultural Production and Peer-to-Peer Learning
University of California, San Diego Center for Human Development Winter Seminar...
February 24, 2007
Amateur, Mashed Up, and Derivative: New Media Literacies and Otaku Culture
Keynote Address for the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Mid-Winter Conference. Nashville, Tennessee....
February 1, 2007
Japanese Popular Culture and Film
A panel discussion at the Japan Society with Chris Baker, Taro Goto, and Lisa Katayama....
October 16, 2006
Mobile Photo Sharing
A talk for Mobile Monday LA, 6:30pm at the Annenberg Center....
October 7, 2006
Mobile Youth Culture
A keynote address for the 2005 ATOM National Conference, E-Merging Realities in Brisbane, Australia....
September 18, 2006
Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing Workshop
Co-organizer of a workshop at Ubicomp 2006 in Irvine....
September 14, 2006
Amateur Cultural Production
A talk with Howard Rheingold as part of the DIY media track in the Annenberg Center for Communication Speaker Series....
May 9, 2006
The Gender Dynamics of the Japanese Media Mix
A panel discussion for the Girls 'n' Games Conference, University of California, Los Angeles...
April 26, 2006
The Future of Information
A panel discussion at an event celebrating the renaming of the UC Berkeley Information School (or iSchool for short) formerly the School of Information Management of Systems....
April 20, 2006
Japanese Media Mixes and the Cultural Politics of Chidlhood and Gender
A talk for the Gender and Technology Speaker Series, Univerity of Texas, Austin...
February 20, 2006
Pedestrian Computing: Chronicles of Portable Technology Use in Urban Japan
University of Michigan. Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (STeMS) Speaker Series...
February 6, 2006
Anime Fandom and Amateur Cultural Production
UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Colloquium. Los Angeles, CA....
February 1, 2006
Visual Communication and Co-Presence: Camera Phones in Japanese Life
With Daisuke Okabe for the USC's Interactive Media Division Seminar Series....
July 27, 2005
Technologies of the Childhood Imagination: Yugioh, Media Mixes, and Otaku
Keynote address at “Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media,” a conference organized by the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, University of London, July 26-29, 2004....
March 27, 2003
Japanese Youth and the Mobile Internet
A talk in the panel "Learning and Communicating in a Digital World." in Connecting with the Wired Generation: Young People, Digital Technology, and the Media at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29. [webcast]...
December 1, 2002
Play in an Age of Digital Media: Children's Engagements with the Japanimation Media Mix
Abe Symposium Sponsored by the Abe Fellowship Program. Tokyo, April 12, 2002. [pdf]...
December 1, 2001
The Media Mix: Multiple Embodiments of Japanimation Characters
Society for the Social Studies of Science meetings, Boston, 2001. [pdf]...
Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-placement of Social Contact
Society for the Social Studies of Science meetings, Boston, 2001. [pdf] In Finnish at Mediumi longer version in preparation...
December 1, 1999
Children's Software, Media Fetishism, and the Special Effect
Paper presented at the 1999 meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago. [pdf]...
December 1, 1998
Inhabiting Multiple Worlds: Making Sense of SimCity 2000TM in the Fifth Dimension
In Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit eds., Cyborg Babies. New York: Routledge, 1998....
December 1, 1996
Proliferating Presences: Ethnographic Subjectivity in a Distributed Educational Research Consortium
Paper presented at the 1996 meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco. [pdf]...
Uses and Subversions of SimCity 2000
Paper presented at the 1996 meetings of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Bielefeld, Germany. [pdf]...
December 1, 1994
Cybernetic Fantasies: Extensions of Selfhood in a Multi-User Dungeon
Paper presented at the 1994 meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta. [pdf]...
Cyborg Couplings in a Multi-User Dungeon
Paper presented at the 1994 meetings of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, New Orleans. [pdf]...