[dmya] Youth Advisory maps their digital lives
This month in the DMYA, we had a visit from videographers and producers that are putting together a documentary on the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Initiative. It was a great opportunity for the youth in the advisory to both have their voices heard about what they're actually doing online, as well as to display their skill in speaking and thinking critically about their relationship to digital media.
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After this, we asked everyone to create their own maps of their digital lives, which was a really fascinating process, and one in which we all got to learn a lot about the different ways the group relates to digital media. I've included some of the maps below. Enjoy!
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I was interested in some of the comments and observations on this blog. I am a Research Fellow working at UCL with the British Library and Bristol University on a project to better understand personal information management behaviour and what this might mean for digital curation practice. Could you take a look at our survey (at: http://tinyurl.com/5wtwgm) and fill it in? Even better, please, could you forward the following invitation text to any lists or colleagues who might be interested?
Many thanks
Pete Williams
Digital Lives: Helping People to Capture and Secure their Individual Memories, their Personal Creativity, their Shared Historic Moments
Increasingly, our family memories, our personal achievements, our experiences of historical events, are being facilitated and recorded digitally.
Digital Lives is a pathfinding research project that is setting out to understand how individuals retain and manage their personal collections of computerised information - everything from digital photographs and videos to favourite podcasts and sentimental email messages - and how these digital collections can best be captured in the first place and preserved in the long term, perhaps for family history, biographical or other purposes.
The project is led by Dr Jeremy Leighton John and colleagues at the British Library who, together with experts from UCL and Bristol University, are researching the challenges that lie ahead as more and more of our memories and documentary witnesses exist in electronic form.
We would like to invite you to take part in our research by completing an online survey. This should take no more than ten minutes of your time and it will provide us with crucial information that will benefit both individuals such as yourself, in your day to day management and storage of information, and also help the work of the British Library and other archives enormously as we plan for what is fast becoming a largely digital world.
If you would like to take part in the survey, please click here: .
If you would like to enter our Prize Draw and stand a chance of winning £200 in British Library gift vouchers (drawn at random and with no further obligation) you can register your interest at the end of the survey.
Please note that all responses are strictly confidential. No individuals will be named when we report our findings, and the information collected will only be presented in an aggregated form. You will not be contacted again as a result of completing this survey.
If you have any questions, or are concerned about the bona fides of this survey, please email Principal Investigator, Dr Ian Rowlands (UCL School of Library, Archive & Information Studies)at: i.rowlands@ucl.ac.uk
(Digital Lives is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council: Grant number BLRC 8669).
Posted by: Peter Williams | May 16, 2008 10:54 AM