Growing Up Policed Vimeo Channel

by gtdonovan on January 3, 2012 at 2:12 pm · Filed under censorship, class, conference, CUNY, education, identity, lgbtq, michellefine, NYC, Oregon, police, policing, portland, privacy, publicscienceproject, race, sexting, sexuality, surveillance, video, vimeo, youth

The official Growing Up Policed Vimeo Channel is now live! This channel includes video of presentations, panels, and discussions from the Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities Mini-Conference that took place at both the University of Oregon and the CUNY Graduate Center on 12/01/2011.

Incited by the case of the felony conviction of a young woman of color for sexting with her girlfriend in Oregon and participatory research on criminalization among 1,100 young people in New York City, the mini-conference focused on the nexus of youth, technology, law enforcement, and constructions of racialized sexuality. Using a broad definition of “policing” that extends across jails, schools, subways, and cyberspace, the conference examined the tools that parents, professionals, and others use to watch over, intervene with, and attempt to “correct” youth [more info: opencuny.org/growinguppoliced].

Conference Opening by Michelle Fine:

Presentations, Panels, and Discussions:

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Cybersecurity Cowrites Our Future

by gtdonovan on December 28, 2011 at 4:31 pm · Filed under ad, computer, education, future, identity, image, mta, network, NYC, security, subway, university

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OpenCUNY.org Roundtable on Fostering Student-Based Media @ CUNY IT Conference

by gtdonovan on December 1, 2011 at 9:40 am · Filed under CUNY, education, governance, image, media, OpenCUNY, opensource, participation, participatory, student

12/2/11>>9:30AM-10:45AM>>John Jay College CUNY>>MORE INFO

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Federal Reserve Board: Polarization, Immigration, Education: What’s Behind The Dramatic Decline in Youth Employment?

by gtdonovan on November 15, 2011 at 12:13 pm · Filed under education, Federal Researve Board, FEDS, immigration, link, methodology, participation, polarization, SecurityPod, work, youth

From the abstract: “This paper presents updated trends in teen employment and participation across multiple demographic characteristics, and argues that, in addition to immigration, occupational polarization in the U.S. adult labor market has resulted in increased competition for jobs that teens traditionally hold. Testing various supply and demand explanations for the decline since the mid-1980s, I find that demand factors can explain at least half of the decline unexplained by the business cycle, and that supply factors can explain much of the remaining decline.”

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From Turkle to Sesame: What’s a Computer?

by gtdonovan on October 26, 2011 at 10:05 am · Filed under computer, education, evocative object, identity, quotes, Sesame Street, Turkle, youth

From Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self,” p21:

… the computer is a metaphysical machine. Children too are provoked. The computer creates new occasions for thinking through the fundamental questions to which childhood must give a response, among them the question “what is life?”

From Sesame Street (h/t jgieseking, Aga Skorupka):

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