Reporters in the Field

Digital Natives The Digital Natives project is collaboration between the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland Digital natives, a term made popular by Marc Prensky, are young people whose use of technology is completely ingrained in their lives -they have grown up always-on and constantly-connected. The project’s goal is to better understand young people’s experiences with digital media, including Internet, cell phones and related technologies. By gaining insight into how digital natives make sense of their interactions in this digital landscape, we may address the issues their practices raise, learn how to harness the opportunities their digital fluency presents, and shape our regulatory and educational frameworks in a way that advances the public interest. This project focuses on the key legal, social, educational and political implications of this generational shift and the changing relationships between people and information that comprise it.

Reporters in the Field Digital Natives Reporters in the Field are essentially Berkman interns who are researching, reporting and producing audio and video clips for an ongoing media series published on the Digital Natives website. These interns can be professionals, graduate students, college students, advanced teens and pre-teens. They often want to produce a piece of media on digital life, but they don't necessarily know what to do or even where to start. This raises several issues for the Berkman Center and this document will address them.

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