Conference proceeding
Cultural coding and de-coding as ways of participation: digital media for marginalized young people
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on interaction design and children, pp.294-297
IDC '09
06/03/2009
DOI: 10.1145/1551788.1551864
Abstract
Like literacy itself, access to digital media both reflects and shapes the ways people play and learn , and more generally, how individuals and groups perceive themselves, relate to others, treat things, and occupy space . We see both opportunities and risks in today's infatuation for all things digital. As organizers of the IDC 2009 workshop on "Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth: Reducing the Gap", our focus is on the empowerment and integration of marginalized youth. We look at how marginalized youth adopt digital media and what's in it for them. We summarize all the accepted position papers in an attempt to draw lessons useful to researchers, educators, and practitioners. To conclude, we draw from Paulo Freire's "pedagogy of the oppressed" as a useful framework to rethink some of the prerequisites that may help marginalized youth to find their voices while, at the same time, speaking the tongue of others (in particular those in power). Getting "lost in translations" is what paves the ways to many youngsters social exclusion.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cultural coding and de-coding as ways of participation: digital media for marginalized young people
- Creators
- Edith Ackermann - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFrancoise Decortis - University of LiègeJuan Hourcade - University of IowaHeidi Schelhowe - University of Bremen
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on interaction design and children, pp.294-297
- Series
- IDC '09
- DOI
- 10.1145/1551788.1551864
- Publisher
- ACM
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/03/2009
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984259413002771
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