November 29, 2012
Connected Learning and Literacy
Plenary presentation for the Literacy Research Association. [link]...
November 9, 2012
Are social networks making us feel closer or are they pushing us away?
Debate with Stephen Marche, Zeynep Tufekci, Rahaf Harfoush, and Randi Zuckerberg for Ciudad de las Idea, Puebla, Mexico video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player...
November 7, 2012
JSB Symposium: Connected Learning
Lecture for the John Seely Brown Symposium Series, University of Michigan. [link] Wednesday, November 7, 2 p.m. Kahn Auditorium, Biomedical Science Research Building...
May 22, 2012
Connected Learning
Talk and panel discussion for CALIT2's Digitized: Life Transformed event. Recap of the event here. Video of the talk here....
May 10, 2012
Conversation with Howard Rheingold
Media Lab Conversation: Howard Rheingold, appearance together with Joi Ito [link]...
March 22, 2012
Translation, Triggers, and Transitions: What does it take to connect interests to achievement?
Webinar for connectedlearning.tv. Link to livestream here....
March 21, 2012
Digital Media and the Future of Learning
Presentation for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Foundation [link]...
March 12, 2012
Education in a Digitally Connected World
FutureofEducation.com webinar with Steve Hargadon. Archive here....
February 16, 2012
Digital Futures: What Comes After the Network Society
Panel discussion with Tom Boellsorff and Maria Bezaitis at UC Irvine. [link]...
February 12, 2012
Helping to Fix Educational Opportunity
Ignite talk for the 2012 Social Computing Symposium. [video]...
November 16, 2011
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
Talk for the MIT Cool Japan and Center for Civic Media speaker series. Video here....
October 29, 2011
Connected Learning
American Association of School Librarians meeting, Minneapolis, MN. Press release....
October 13, 2011
Learning with Social and Mobile Media: The Positive Potential of Peer Pressure and Messing Around Online
Keynote address for Mobility Shifts in NYC, October 2011. Write-up by Doug Belshaw here. Mimi Ito, University of California, Irvine from The Politics of Digital Culture on Vimeo....
September 30, 2011
Connected Learning in a Networked Age
Statewide IT conference at Indiana University...
May 10, 2011
Learning in a Connected World
A talk for the Pearson Forum 2011, Always Learning. [video of talk]...
March 30, 2011
Teens Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
Microsoft Leadership Summit, Imagine 2011. [video of talk]...
January 7, 2011
Connected Lifelong Learning
Keynote talk for the OCLC American Library Association Midwinter Meeting on "Transformational Literacy." Video here....
October 20, 2010
Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Connected Learning & Play in a Digital Age
Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law, Michigan State University 2010 Quello Lecture [link]...
July 7, 2010
How can social media drive kids to become passionate intellectuals and engaged citizens?
Talk for the Aspen Ideas Festival 2010 [link]...
June 10, 2010
Learning with Social Media: The Positive Potential of Peer Pressure and Messing Around Online
Opening keynote for the 2010 NMC Summer Conference....
May 3, 2010
Peer-Based Learning in a Networked Age
Keynote address for University of Michigan's Enriching Scholarship 2010....
February 25, 2010
New Media and Its Superpowers
Talk for the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference Transcript of the talk is here....
February 10, 2010
Amateur Media Production and Networked Collaboration
Closing keynote for Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2010. Transcript of talk here....
January 28, 2010
Critical Legalities Workshop: Youth and Digital Culture
Workshop with John Palfrey and Liz Losh for the UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, 3:00-5:00 PM, Humanities Gateway 1010...
October 28, 2009
The Next Revolution in Learning: How Digital Culture is Shaping Where and How Children Learn
A panel presentation for Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age. The transcript of my talk is posted here....
October 7, 2009
Sociocultural Contexts of Game-Based Learning
Presentation at a workshop for the National Academy of Science's Committee on Learning Science: Computer Games, Simulations, and Education....
April 27, 2009
NAB Keynote
Technology Luncheon Keynote at the National Association of Broadcasters Show, Las Vegas. The transcript of the talk is here....
April 17, 2009
Digital Youth and Participatory Learning
A conversation with Howard Rheingold for the MacArthur Foundation supported Digital Media & Learning Competition Winners' Showcase...
April 14, 2009
Networked Publics and Peer-Based Learning
Jan Hawkins Award presentation, American Educational Research Association, San Diego. 10:30-12noon, Omni Salon C...
March 17, 2009
Mashed-Up, Amateur, and P2P: The Emerging Digital Media Landscape
Keynote address for the Taiwan, Technology & Beyond conference....
March 6, 2009
Amateur Innovation: Creative Production in the Emerging Digital Media Landscape
Talk for Deutsche Telekom Trendforum 2009, Hanover....
February 24, 2009
Born Digital -- Born Mobile: A Look at the Future of Communication and Search
Closing Keynote for the nfais 51st annual conference, Barbarians at the Gate: The Impact of Digital Natives and Emerging Technologies on the Future of Information Services...
December 5, 2008
Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Genres of Youth Participation in Networked Publics
UC Irvine Informatics Seminar. 3pm, 5011 Donald Bren Hall [video]...
October 24, 2008
Networked Publics and Participatory Media Culture: What Kids are Doing Online
Founders Circle Luncheon address at the James Madison College, Michigan State University. Event in honor of founding faculty member Peter Lyman....
October 16, 2008
Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out
Keynote address for the Association of Internet Research, Copenhagen....
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]...
