Initial Judges :: Finalist Judges
HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation would like to thank the following initial judges for their expertise, time, and dedication in selecting our 2009 Competition finalists. This crucial work was an enormous undertaking, accomplishing the difficult task of establishing the finalist pool from approximately 700 applications.
Emer Beamer, Director of Research & Development, Butterfly Works
Beamer leads the experiential learning programs, Learning about Living in Nigeria and Words over Weapons in South Africa, at Butterfly Works, a do-tank which combines design with finding sustainable answers to international social issues.
Pim Betist, Founder, SellaBand
Betist is the founder of SellaBand, an online movement that enables unsigned artists to record a professional album funded by fans.
Tom Boellstorff, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Boellstorff is Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association and also author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Princeton University Press, 2008).
Geoffrey Bowker, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor, Santa Clara University
Bowker works on the generation, deployment and sharing of knowledge in information infrastructures, notably scientific cyberinfrastructure.
John Briggs, Kiva Fellow, Kiva.org
Briggs was assistant managing editor at Yahoo! News, where he worked for over 10 years, and was a 2007 Knight Fellow at Stanford University; he is now a Kiva Fellow doing volunteer field work for Kiva.org, a website that enables person-to-person microfinance.
Laura Brown, Senior Advisor, Ithaka
Brown is the former President of Oxford University Press, USA, and is currently serving as the Acting Director of Strategic Services at Ithaka, as well as a senior advisor to Ithaka and JSTOR.
Susan Brown, Associate Professor, University of Guelph
Brown is the Director of the Orlando Project, an experiment in digital literary history.
Simone Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Browne's teaching and research interests include race, technology, and cultural studies.
Ingrid Bruynse, Educational Media Specialist, Bright Media
Bruynse runs Bright Media, an educational media and training company, and has many years of experience in using media for learning.
Dennis Burke, Associate Dean of Curriculum, Emily Carr University
Along with developing curriculum in Digital And Interactive Arts, Burke is an award winning film composer and sound designer with over 100 films to his credit.
Michael Carter, Director of Special Projects, Monterey Institute for Technology & Education (MITE)
Carter has been doing research and development in technology and learning for over thirty years for such entities as Stanford University, Apple Computer, Digital Pictures, Zookazoo.com, and MITE.
Wendy Chun, Associate Professor, Brown University
Chun is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT 2006) and co-editor of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2006).
Daniel Churchill, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Hong Kong
Churchill has over 15 years of experience in design of interactive digital media for education and his multimedia designs have received awards from educational institutions and industry such as the Macromedia award for best multimedia on the Web.
Kyle Cleveland, Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of Office of International Students, Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ)
Cleveland is the founding Director of TUJ's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies, Supervisor of the university's Wakai Project, and Associate Professor of Sociology, whose work addresses Japanese youth and pop culture, ethnicity and political sociology.
Noshir Contractor, Professor, Northwestern University
Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and is also the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University.
Paul Conway, Associate Professor in the School of Information, University of Michigan
Conway's research focuses on the social aspects of building and using digital archives.
Elizabeth Dorland, Academic Coordinator, Washington University
Dorland is a former NSF program officer and college chemistry faculty member who promotes information and visual literacy in the context of Web 2.0 at Washington University in St. Louis.
Maureen Engel, E-learning Manager for the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta
Engel manages E-Learning for the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta and teaches in the MA program in Humanities Computing.
Mindy Faber, Academic Manager, Columbia College
Faber is a media artist, activist, curator and educator; she is the founder of Open Youth Networks, co-curator of the video program YouTube-sized: Youth Personas, Protests, Paranoias and Pleasures, the creator of the Fair Use Remix Institute and the Academic Manager of the Department of Interactive Arts and Media at Columbia College.
Rafael Fajardo, Associate Professor of Digital Media Studies & Electronic Media Arts Design, University of Denver
Fajardo is the founder of SWEAT, a loose collaborative that makes socially conscious video games, and is an associate professor of Digital Media Studies and Electronic Media Arts Design at the University of Denver.
Diane Favro, Professor of Architecture & Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles
Favro is Director of the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center, which promotes research and teaching using digital technologies with an emphasis on geotemporal and experiential explorations in the arts and humanities.
Bill Gannon, Director of Online Operations, Lucasfilm Ltd.
Gannon heads up digital strategy and operations for Lucasfilm Ltd.
Sue Gollifer, Principal Lecturer in Digital Media Arts, University of Brighton
Gollifer has been a professional artist, academic and researcher for over 30 years, exhibiting her work regularly throughout the world.
Laurie A. Henry, Assistant Professor of Early Adolescent Literacy, University of Kentucky
Henry researches the development of new literacies for reading and writing among middle school students and their teachers in online environments.
Kenneth Hite, Game developer & designer, Contributor to IPR & Weird Tales
Hite has designed, written, or co-written over 70 roleplaying games and supplements, including four Origins Award-winning games.
Larissa Hjorth, Senior Lecturer & ARC Discovery research fellow, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Hjorth is an artist and researcher specializing in mobile media, gaming and online communities in the Asia-Pacific region.
Adrian Hon, Chief Creative and Co-Founder, Six to Start
Hon is Co-Founder of Six to Start, Europe's leading alternate reality game company.
Dan Hon, CEO, Six to Start
Hon is Co-Founder and CEO of Six to Start, a leading cross-media entertainment and alternate reality game producer.
Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
Jakubowicz researches cultural diversity and social change and directs the website Making Multicultural Australia (http://multiculturalaustralia.edu.au).
Paul Jay, Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago
Jay teaches literary and critical theory at Loyola University Chicago.
Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, University of North Carolina
Jones is a poet, journalist, librarian, and technologist.
Joseph Kahne, Dean, School of Education, Mills College
Kahne studies the impact of schools and participation with digital media on young people's civic development.
Shin Dong Kim, Professor, Sciences Po Paris
Kim teaches media and information culture at Sciences Po Paris.
Kevin Leander, Associate Professor of Teaching & Learning, Vanderbilt University
Leander is Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University, where his research interests are literacy and technology, literacy and space-time and learning in and out of school.
Wan-Ying Lin, Assistant Professor of Media & Communications, City University of Hong Kong
Lin's works have appeared, among other journals, in Journal of Communication, Journalism, New Media & Society, and Social Science Computer Review.
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
Lynch's work at the Coalition for Networked Information focuses on digital content and advanced technology in support of scholarship.
Paolo Mangiafico, Director of Digital Information Strategy, Duke University
Mangiafico is the Director of Digital Information Strategy in the Provost's office at Duke University, where he leads strategic planning for broader and longer term access to and more effective use of the university's digital information resources.
Jackie Marsh, Professor of Education, University of Sheffield
Marsh is involved in research relating to the role and nature of popular culture, media and new technologies in young children's literacy practices both in- and out-of-school.
Marilyn Gell Mason, Recently retired Founder & Executive Director, WebJunction
Mason was the Founder and Executive Director of WebJunction, a division of OCLC and an online community that provides training and technical support for library staff.
John McGowan, Director of Institute for the Arts & Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
McGowan is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, specializing in intellectual history.
Colleen Monahan, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Distance Education (CADE), University of Illinois at Chicago
Monahan has pioneered the incorporation of advanced Internet technologies in the field of public health as the director of CADE at the UIC School of Public Health.
Leonard Mware, Projects Manager, Computer Aid International
Mware was the former Director of International Conferences, Workshops, and Exhibitions (ICWE) Africa.
Lisa Nakamura, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research & Director of the Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nakamura is the author of Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (U. of Minnesota, 2008).
Frederick Noronha, Independent Journalist
Noronha is a professional journalist, co-founder of BytesForAll, and is active in promoting ICTs-for-development for almost a decade, through various innovative networks in South Asia.
Ugochukwu Nwosu, Program Manager, Ajegunle.org, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria
Nwosu is an Information Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) enthusiast and advocate.
Martin Oliver, Reader in the Institute of Education, University of London
Oliver is a Reader in ICT in Education at the London Knowledge Lab, University of London.
Susanna Paasonen, Research Fellow in the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Paasonen studies and teaches media culture with specific interest in affect and Internet research.
Lanita Pace-Hinton, Director of Multimedia & Technology Training, Knight Digital Media Center
Pace-Hinton is the director of Multimedia Training Programs for the Knight Digital Media Center at University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Lisa Parks, Chair & Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Parks is Chair and Associate Professor of the Film and Media Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara.
Vincent Quah, Programs Director, Microsoft Operations
Quah is an Education and Life Science industries consultant.
Diana Rhoten, Program Director, Knowledge Institutions & Research Director, Digital Media and Learning, Social Science Research Council
Rhoten researches the social and technical conditions as well as the individual and organizational implications of different approaches to knowledge production and dissemination.
Sundar Sarukkai, Professor & Dean of Humanities, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
Sarukkai is the Head of the Centre for Philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India.
'Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria
Sesan is an Ashoka Fellow, Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, member of the UN Committee on Youth & ICTs, and was Nigeria's first Information Technology Youth Ambassador.
Abby Smith, Senior Advisor, Scholarly Communications Institute at the University of Virginia
Smith is a historian, Senior Adviser to the Scholarly Communication Institute (www.uvasci.org), and consultant to the Library of Congress on its digital preservation program, NDIIPP.
Oreoluwa Somolu, Executive Director, The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC)
Somolu is Executive Director of the Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC), a non-profit based in Nigeria working to encourage Nigerian women to use technology to empower themselves socially and economically.
Steve Vosloo, Fellow, 21st Century Learning, Shuttleworth Foundation
Vosloo is interested in the learning affordances of digital media for youth in developing countries.
X. Christine Wang, Assistant Professor of Literacy, State University of New York at Buffalo
Wang is interested in young children's learning and collaboration in technology-rich contexts.
Floyd Webb, Creative Director/Producer, e22.creative
Webb is the Creative Director of e22.creative, a multimedia company working in digital creative production for commercials, music videos and spot news for web and mobile applications.
Michele White, Assistant Professor of Communication, Tulane University
White is an Internet and new media studies scholar and author of The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship (MIT Press, 2006).
Sophia Wu, Associate Professor of Communication, National Chengchi University
Wu is Director of the Center for Media Literacy and Education at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
:: Finalist Judges ::
Initial Judges :: Finalist Judges
HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation would like to thank the following finalist judges for their expertise, time, and dedication in selecting the 2009 Digital Media and Learning Competition awardees. At this stage of the process, judges evaluated all finalist applications and convened for collective review and final selection of awardees.
Stephen DeBerry
Stephen DeBerry is the Chief Investment Officer at Kapor Enterprises, Inc. (KEI). He manages a broad portfolio of investments spanning early stage technology to global equities, with a focus on driving social impact. As Head of Strategy & Innovation, DeBerry is responsible for setting direction and building collaborations between a host of organizations in the KEI network, including: Kapor Enterprises, the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, The Level Playing Field Institute and several portfolio entities. Previously, DeBerry was investment director at Omidyar Network, a $400 million mission-based investment firm. Some of his investments include: ClrcleLending (acquired by Virgin), InnoCentive and Prosper. Before Omidyar, DeBerry was a senior manager of business development at Interval Research, the research lab established by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. He currently serves on the boards of Friends of New Orleans and The Association of Marshall Scholars. DeBerry earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology with highest honors from UCLA, and holds a master's degree in social anthropology, as well as an MBA from Oxford University. He is a British Marshall Scholar and a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
Elizabeth Dickey
Elizabeth Dickey is the President of Bank Street. Prior to joining Bank Street, she held the position of University Professor at The New School. She was Provost and Chief Academic Officer from 1998 to 2003, overseeing the academic affairs of eight academic divisions, ranging from politics to management to design to music, spread across six schools with 1,850 faculty members and a $165 million budget. She gained a strong reputation at The New School for her commitments to faculty development, academic innovation, and the educational uses of technology. Dickey was also one of three people who led the New School during its transition to president Bob Kerrey. Under her leadership, the New School expanded its offerings online, increased services for a wide range of students through such innovations as the University Writing Center, enhanced the institution's academic reputation, and built support for the university's programs from external communities. While Dickey began her career as a scholar of adult development, her understanding and passion for building environments to nurture lifelong learning soon drew her to academic administration. For over a decade she served at Antioch University, a progressive institution grounded in the teaching of John Dewey and centered in experiential learning, eventually becoming Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Antioch, overseeing academic operations at twenty locations across the U.S. Prior to coming to the New School, she was University Dean for Academic Planning and Evaluation at City University of New York. In addition, she has been an independent consultant providing strategic planning, management and evaluation services for corporations, foundations, and universities including Bell Atlantic, US WEST, Philip Morris, MacArthur and Pew Foundations, University of Tennessee and Marymount College. Dickey earned a bachelor's degree from Lake Forest College in Art History and masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Psychology and Adult Development in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.
Monique van Dusseldorp
Monique van Dusseldorp is active as a freelance programmer of seminars and conferences on creativity, innovation, ICT and future developments for a number of clients. She acts as a Program Director/Adviser for a.o. PICNIC, Immovator Cross Media Cafe, ICTDelta, and the Mediapark Jaarcongres. She is an expert at launching events, pulling international and Dutch industry networks together, and bringing together speakers, organizations and delegates. Van Dusseldorp is a member of the Jury for the Swift Awards and the NL Awards. She is also a Trust Fellow of the 21st Century Trust.
Aleks Krotoski
Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology, interactivity and play. In addition to writing a column for The Guardian's Technology section and presenting the Guardian's weekly technology podcast, she blogs on Guardian Unlimited and is currently working towards a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Surrey. Krotoski is examining the relationship between communication patterns and group processes in the diffusion of information through an online community. She is also exploring the social networks of virtual world Second Life, which displays unique, emergent social properties reflective of offline social life. Using social network analysis and sociometric surveys, she intends to understand how the hardware of interpersonal ties affects the software of interpersonal interaction. Krotoski writes about the social dimensions of games, communities in virtual worlds and other playful aspects of social software. She also writes policy, government and industry reports covering media regulation, technological forecasting, demographics, age ratings, education and game industry regulation; she regularly speaks about interpersonal processes in online communities with financial, telecommunications and governmental organizations.
Michael Levine
Michael Levine oversees the Joan Ganz Cooney Center's efforts to catalyze and support research, innovation and investment in educational media technologies for young children. Prior to joining the Center, Levine served as Vice President of New Media and Executive Director of Education for Asia Society, managing the global nonprofit organization's interactive media and educational initiatives to promote knowledge and understanding of Asia and other world regions, languages and cultures. Previously, Levine oversaw Carnegie Corporation of New York's groundbreaking work in early childhood development, educational media and primary grades reform, and was a senior advisor to the New York City Schools Chancellor, where he directed dropout prevention, afterschool and early childhood initiatives. Levine has been a frequent adviser to the U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, writes for public affairs journals, and appears frequently in the media. He was named by Working Mother magazine as one of America's most influential leaders in shaping family and children's policy and serves on numerous nonprofit boards, including We Are Family Foundation, Ready To Learn, Talaris Institute and Teach For America. Levine is also currently a senior associate at the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Policy from Brandeis University's Florence Heller School and his B.S. from Cornell University.
Nichole Pinkard
Nichole Pinkard is a Senior Research Associate, as well as the Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Information Infrastructure System (IIS) project at the Center for Urban School Improvement (USI) at the University of Chicago. She plays a leading role in USI's engagement in the ongoing process of researching problems around the integration of advanced technology systems into urban schools. As lead designer of the center's IIS project, she heads the design and development of a knowledge management system that will better equip urban schools to provide ambitious intellectual work for all students. Pinkard also created the vision for the Digital Media Program for students at the University of Chicago Charter School. She is a recipient of the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies and an NSF Early CAREER Fellowship. Her current scholarly interests include culturally responsive computer-based learning environments, cultural contexts affecting learning broadly and literacy specifically, visualization tools to support analysis of data, gender and technology and ubiquitous scaffolds. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University, where she developed software to leverage background knowledge to teach beginning reading.
Laurie Racine
Laurie Racine's career has been spent as a senior executive and strategist-defining and implementing the mission, objectives and roadmaps for profit and non-profit corporations in media, education and healthcare. As a result of her increasing activity at the intersection of philanthropy, social action, learning, media and digital technologies, Racine formed Racine Strategy last year. She is a founder of dotSUB, a technology driven media company. dotSUB is eliminating language as a barrier to cross cultural communication through browser based applications that offer a radically low cost, highly flexible approach to repurposing video content into multiple languages. As Principal and Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for the video mixing and distribution platform, Eyespot, Racine built partnerships, deal structures and business relationships with Lucas Films, NBA, MTV, Paramount, College Humor, Participant Productions, and Demand Media. Prior to Eyespot, Racine was President of a private venture foundation, endowed by the founders of Red Hat Inc. During her tenure she launched Lulu Press, invested the seed funding in Creative Commons and co-founded Public Knowledge, the leading public interest group in Washington DC, focusing on issues of the digital age. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center of the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California and was the President of Doc Arts, the corporation that produces the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Racine was also the Executive Director of the Health Sector Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University. Racine has edited two books, Ready To Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity, and So What... About Copyright? At present, Racine is the Chair of Teachers Without Borders and Public Knowledge. She also serves as a director on the boards of the Tribeca Film Institute, Creative Commons, the University of California Humanities Research Council and Splashlife, a web meets world start-up.
Aza Raskin
Aza Raskin is the founder of Humanized Inc., Songza, and Bloxes, and President of the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces. He is currently Head of User Experience at Mozilla Labs. Raskin gave his first talk on interface design at his local San Francisco chapter of SIGCHI at the age of 10. By the age of 17, he was talking and consulting internationally; at age 19, he coauthored a physics textbook; and at age 21, he co-founded Humanized. Raskin has also done Dark Matter research at both Tokyo University and the University of Chicago, from where he graduated with honors in math and physics. He is also an accomplished international French horn soloist.
Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold teaches Participatory Media/Collective Action at UC Berkeley's School of Information, Digital Journalism at Stanford University, is a non-resident Fellow of the Annenberg School for Communication, and is a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. He co-authored Higher Creativity (1984), Talking Tech (1982) and The Cognitive Connections (1986), Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes (1988), Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990), and They Have A Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and phrases (1988). He also authored Tools for Thought (1984) [MIT Press, April 2000] and Virtual Reality (1991). In 1985, he became involved in the WELL, a computer conferencing system, which led to The Virtual Community (1993) [MIT Press in 2000], a book about the cultural and political implications of a new communications medium. He is credited with inventing the term "virtual community." He also served as the editor of The Whole Earth review and editor in chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog in 1994. In 1994, he was one of the principal architects and the first Executive Editor of HotWired. In 1996, he founded and, with the help of a crew of 15, launched Electric Minds. Electric Minds was named one of the ten best web sites of 1996 by Time magazine and was acquired by Durand Communications in 1997. His 2002 book, Smart Mobs, was widely acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era. The weblog associated with the book has become one of the top 200 of the 8 million blogs tracked by Technorati, and won Utne Magazine's Independent Press Award in 2003. In 2005, he taught a course at Stanford University on A Literacy of Cooperation, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action that he has undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. The Cooperation Commons is the site of his ongoing investigation of cooperation and collective action.
Craig Wacker
Craig Wacker is a Program Officer in Digital Media & Learning, a strategy of the Program on Human & Community Development. Before joining the MacArthur Foundation, Craig worked as an analyst in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, DC, focusing on K-12 education policy. He has also served as a Congressional Fellow on Senator Edward Kennedy's staff; as a Research Associate at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; and on secondment to the World Bank Institute (WBI) of the World Bank Group. Craig received his Bachelors degree in History from Grinnell College and his Masters in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin.
Connie M. Yowell
Connie M. Yowell is the Director of Education in the MacArthur Foundation's Program on Human and Community Development. In this role, she focuses on grants relating to public education, and on the implications for education of young people's use of digital media. Prior to joining the Foundation, Yowell was an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where her work included the study of reasons why Latino youth drop out of high school. Previously she worked as a Policy Analyst in the Office of Policy and Planning of the U.S. Department of Education. Before that, Yowell was a Research Assistant at the University of California at San Francisco and at Stanford University. Yowell earned her bachelor's degree from Yale and her Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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