Thesis, etc.
I am beyond excited about this:
“The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations. The initiative is both marshaling what is already known about the field and seeding innovation for continued growth.” Take a look at the list of grants and initiatives! And the knowledge network!
If this had existed 6 months ago, my thesis would have been so much easier!
I originally started this site as a way to disseminate my research results. The topic (and thesis) is a simple one: why do college students participate in digital culture?
700 participants later, the results are astonishing, but they have also made me realize that I want to look at a wider range of participants, and then possibly break the data down into more specific chunks, maybe by gender, or class standing, and that I need to add some interview questions, so right now, I am filing a new IRB and am going to restart the project using what I have learned since finishing my thesis to make the project better.
Watch this space! It will relaunch from here.