[Air-L] Research about informal education on YouTube (Julia Lowe)

[Meryl Alper]

Hi Julia,

Regarding informal education, educational spaces, and educational
communities on YouTube (e.g. the Nerdfighters), you will want to reach out
to my fellow Ph.D. Candidate at USC Annenberg, Neta Kligler Vilenchik -
kliglerv [at] usc [dot] edu.  Her dissertation is on youth civic engagement
online, and she has conducted a large case study with the Nerdfighters.
Here is a specific link to a report she wrote for the MacArthur Digital
Media & Learning Hub on fan community spaces and informal learning among
youth:
http://dmlhub.net/publications/decreasing-world-suck-fan-communities-mechanisms-translation-and-participatory-politics

Please also see this recent interview series between Henry Jenkins and
Patricia Lange (
http://henryjenkins.org/2014/03/kids-on-youtube-an-interview-with-patricia-lange-part-one.html)
on Lange's new book, *Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital
Literacies
(http://www.amazon.com/Kids-YouTube-Technical-Identities-Literacies/dp/1611329361/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1389385033&sr=8-2&
<http://www.amazon.com/Kids-YouTube-Technical-Identities-Literacies/dp/1611329361/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1389385033&sr=8-2&>)*

Best,
Meryl

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Meryl Alper
Ph.D. Candidate in Communication
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
University of Southern California
malper at usc.edu
merylalper.com