Key Areas of Work (more detailed information below)
- Artificial intelligence
- Digital economy
- Information quality
- Privacy and reputation
- Safety and Well-being
- Youth participation
Other Areas
- Digital Citizenship+ [more here]
- Computational thinking
- Content production
- Data
- Digital access
- Digital (literacy)
- Identity exploration & formation
- Law
- Media (literacy)
- Positive / respectful behavior
- Security
Artificial intelligence
Flagship publication:
Ongoing collaborations:
- AI for Children: Exploring how to embed child rights in the governing policies of artificial intelligence. A collaborative two-year project led by UNICEF’s Office of Global Insight and Policy — in partnership with the Government of Finland, and in collaboration with the IEEE Standards Association, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, the World Economic Forum, the 5Rights Foundation and other organizations that form part of Generation AI — explores approaches to protecting and upholding child rights in an evolving AI world.
- The Artificial Intelligence, Society, Information and Communication (IA+SIC) Nucleus — led by Berkman Klein Faculty Associate Lionel Brossi — is a collaborative effort aiming to better understand, from an ethical and human rights perspective, the possible impacts of AI on communities and society in general.
- Inclusion in Action — Centro ISUR
Key learning resources:
Other publications:
- Artificial intelligence and its potential impact on children
- Why inclusion matters for the future of artificial intelligence
- We also contributed to the OECD’s book Artificial Intelligence in Society, which offers an overview of the economic, technical, political, and social landscape of AI. The book has helped shape the adoption of the OECD’s AI Principles and will serve as an analytical basis to develop the OECD’s forthcoming AI Policy Observatory, a multistakeholder center for AI public policy.
- [Open Access Book; Spanish] Inteligencia artificial y bienestar de las juventudes en América Latina and here
- [Open Access Book; Spanish] La evolución de las brechas digitales y el auge de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA)
Videos and Podcasts:
- [Spanish] video capsules AI and Inclusion of Youth / Inteligencia Artificial e Inclusión de Jóvenes
- Reflections about Conectados al Sur: Costa Rica
- Urs Gasser
- [Spanish] Andres Lombana
- [Spanish] Sandra Cortesi
In the media:
- AI Innovators Should Be Listening to Kids
- O Globo, “We still need to better understand how to create and use artificial intelligence systems, says researcher”
Digital Economy
Flagship publication:
- Youth and the Digital Economy: A First Look at Youth Practices, Motivations, Skills, Pathways, and Value Creation. In addition to sketching building blocks toward a framework, the paper brings together three essays that explore in different application contexts both the opportunities and challenges that surface when young people engage with and participate in the digital economy.
- The YaM team also recommends these related resources:
Ongoing collaboration:
- Since 2017 we have been collaborating with the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society, led by Berkman Klein Faculty Associate Christian Fieseler, on a number of projects (i.e., Fair Labor in the Digitized Economy, Youth and Emergent Forms of Digital Social Innovation) that examines how youth exercise their agency and participate in economic activities online.
Key learning resources:
The learning resource “Who Do You Want to Be?” is available in over 35 languages! To view the translations, please scroll down to “All Languages.” Additional languages will be added over time.
Other publications:
- Exploring Social Innovation in Norway: A Workshop on Mapping Innovation Ecosystems
- Youth Labor and the Paradoxes of the Digital Economy
- Sharing Learning Tools for Youth Digital Life
- Offers an overview of how we developed our educational platform — the Digital Citizenship+ (Plus) Resource Platform — home to an evolving collection of more than 100 tools (e.g., learning experiences, visualizations, podcasts) that can be used to learn and teach about youth’s digitally connected lives
Information Quality
Flagship publication:
- From Credibility to Information Quality
- One Page Summary [PDF]: [YaM] From Credibility to Information Quality_1 Page Summary_02202012_FINAL
- Information Quality Infographic: Full Size Image
- “Coached to Poach” Infographic: Full Size Image
Key learning resources:
- Information Quality & News Literacy Modules
- Research Methods
- The Information Quality Game
- News Stories (Evaluating Source and Search Online)
- Same Image, Different Story
- Thinking Caps (Perspectives on Personal Information)
- Headline Cut-Ups
- What Is Verification
- The Verification Steps
- Beyond the Original
- Matadata
- Reverse Image Search
Other publications:
- Youth Online and News: A Phenomenological View on Diversity
- The Challenges of Defining ‘News Literacy’
- Youth News Perceptions and Behaviors Online: How Youth Access and Share Information in a Chicago Community Affected by Gang Violence
- Mapping Approaches to News Literacy Curriculum Development: A Navigation Aid
- Youth and Online News: Reflections and Perspectives includes a series of short essays that offer interesting, alternative, exciting, sobering, unusual, out-of-the box perspectives, observations, or reflections at the intersection of news, digital media, and youth – broadly defined.
- Fake news is giving reality a run for its money
- Youth Defying Media
- [Video] Born Digital: Info Quality
Privacy and Reputation
Main publications:
- Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age (Chapter 2: Dossiers / Chapter 3: Privacy / Chapter 4: Protections)
- Teens, Social Media, and Privacy. Flagship reports based on a collaboration between the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Klein Center and the Pew Research Center. The report presents data from a nationally representative survey as well as insights and quotes from focus groups.
Main efforts:
- Urs Gasser is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. Since 2013, he has taught at Harvard “Digital Privacy” from a global perspective. Each semester, several classes address questions of youth and digital privacy issues.
Key learning resources:
These learning resources are available in over 35 languages! To view the translations, for each resource, please scroll down to “All Languages.” Additional languages will be added over time.
Other publications:
- [Book Chapter; please email one of the authors for a free copy] Plunkett L., Cortesi, S., Gasser, U. (2019). Student privacy and the law in the internet age. In K. Bowman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law. New York: Oxford University Press. New types of digital technologies and new ways of using them are heavily impacting young people’s learning environments and creating intense pressure points on the “predigital” framework of student privacy. This chapter offers a high-level mapping of the federal legal landscape in the United States created by the “big three” federal privacy statutes — the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) — in the context of student privacy and the ongoing digital transformation of formal learning environments (“schools”).
- Youth and Artificial Intelligence: Where We Stand
- [Pages 17-18] Offers a brief overview of, and emerging questions around, AI technologies and privacy and safety concerns.
- Student Privacy and Ed Tech (K-12) Research Briefing
- Student Privacy: The Next Frontier
- Framing the Law and Policy Picture: A Snapshot of K-12 Cloud-Based Ed Tech & Student Privacy in Early 2014
- Student Privacy and Cloud Computing at the District Level: Next Steps and Key Issues
- Teens and Technology 2013
- Teens and Mobile Apps Privacy
- Parents, Teens, and Online Privacy
- Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice
- Gasser, U., Cortesi, S., & Palfrey, J. (2011). The changing role of the individual for privacy: The example of youth online. December 2010 submission to OECD.
In the media:
- Taking the digital pulse of today’s youth
- Want to know how teens feel about being friends with their parents on Facebook? Watch two fun videos made by our 2012 summer interns. Part I and Part II.
Safety and Well-being
Flagship publications:
- Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age (Chapter 5: Safety)
- Youth and Cyberbullying: Another Look
- Bullying in a networked era: A literature review
Key learning resources:
These learning resources are available in over 35 languages! To view the translations, for each resource, please scroll down to “All Languages.” Additional languages will be added over time.
Other publications:
- Youth and Digital Citizenship+ (Plus): Understanding Skills for a Digital World
- Youth and Artificial Intelligence: Where We Stand
- Kinder und Jugendliche im Internet. Risiken und Interventionsmöglichkeiten. Mit einem Beitrag zur digitalen Didaktik von Peter Gasser. Bern: hep verlag.
- Moderation and Sense of Community in a Youth-Oriented Online Platform: Scratch’s Governance Strategy for Addressing Harmful Speech
