JGC - Final Discussion and Outcomes

Priorities for Stakeholders

Research

+ Standard networking behaviors of young children (< 12, 7-14?)

    - Longitudinal studies of development over time. 

+ Non-standard networking behaviors ('deviant,' creative, non-normative)

+ Interactions around teaching (intergen, peer to peer, school or home) 

+ Data: 

   - Tracking how data is being collected, what's being collected and how it's being used?

   - What is behind the scenes?

   - Collect new data and analyze the data that is being collected/tracked

Methods

   - New methods to include some of the tools that they study

How can we get designers to share these research interests?

   - To help build a better product

   - Meet the interests/concerns of consumers ie. parents.

Stakeholders

   - Journalists, designers, educators, parents, academics, pediatricians (medicine).

   - How is risk defined by each of these communities?

   - Identify best practices within each of these communities (Jim Gee is doing this now)

   - Get the message out to club leaders, educators, a wider audience than just parents. 

Mechanisms for Collaborations

What are some of the live mechanisms for pushing collaboration that people could fund?

Organizing space for action (e.g., Council on Contemporary Families: sociologist)

Use simple tools/tech to inform and communicate, eg. mailing lists work.

   - Mike ColeL XK (USCD)

Network model for research: Convenings around a single topic, incubation space, researchers get to know each other -> collaborations result in dozens of studies. 

Set up infrastructures that allow similarly-missioned organizations to share work and communicate, collaborate, map out and navigate shared resources

How to get industry on board to support /be interested in research?

   - Central place to post research so industry can make use of it.

   - SBIR grants for industry-research partnerships

   - Show up where industry shows up - go to the parties etc. SXSW, O'Reilly conferences. 

   - Centralized rating system, public evaluation of impact (rating system of learning/participation, eg. Common Sense Media)

   - Sense of benevolence on behalf of industry

Practice

Word/findings need to reach the actual producers, assistants, designers, APs ; often delivered to higher managers who aren't actually creating the content. 

Policy

Go to liberman, Markey, Rockefeller to champion children's media

Family Online Safety Institute

MacArthur DC Arm

Good journalism is convincing. Give stuff staffers can take home. Need to cross party lines.  Convince people slowly over time.  Keep close eye on legislative review cycles.