digital youth

As a final report on the fantastic Digital Youth East Asia workshop, I provide the following snapshots. These are condensed and unexplicated, simply some tidbits. My notes from the conference fill up seventeen typed pages. It was, as film people like to say, a “content rich” three days in Tokyo. And, above, some snapshots of Tokyo.

Professor Shin Mizukoshi, of the Interfaculty Initiative on Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, is a HASTAC kindred spirit who emphasizes MELL: Media, Expression, Learning, Literacy, the need to develop creatively and think critically and learn by participating. His talk on the mobile phone at Digital Youth East Asia was as inspiring as the beautiful new Tadao Ando building that houses his program.

Our Digital Youth Asia conference kicked off with a welcome dinner held at Gonpachi Restaurant where Kill Bill was filmed.  If I were 13, I wouldn't just upload the photo, I would be sailing from one balcony to another along with Uma, Lucy, and Vivica.  Ah, augmented reality!

 

Trying to comprehend the meaning of the recent tragic stabbings by a young factory worker in Akihabara while writing a paper on "digital youth" for a conference in Tokyo.

I'm heading to Tokyo in a few weeks for a pan-Asian Digital Youth culture and thinking a lot about the "youth" part of that topic.

Speaking about digital youth in the U.S. to university students at the University of Genoa and to women in the Associazone Italo Britannica in Chiavari was a fascinating experience across cultures and generations.