The NML team, led by
Professor Henry Jenkins and based at
MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, is
currently exploring participatory culture with an eye toward
identifying the social and cultural skills that we think young people
should learn and be given the chance to practice in order to
successfully navigate a contemporary media culture.
Our theoretical questions outlining our project are:
- What do young people need to know in order to become full, active,
creative, critical, and ethically responsible participants in a
massively networked and media rich global world?
- What sorts of learning environments--both formal and informal--will best support youth
as they acquire those social skills and cultural competencies necessary
to become full participants within this emerging media landscape?
Project New Media Literacies work began in April 2005. Phase I conducted
a comprehensive review of existing new media literacy work that details
the project's theoretical framework:
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.
We are currently in Phase II.
