Scott Carter

University of California, Berkeley/FX Palo Alto Laboratory

Scott is an HCI researcher at FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL). His work at FXPAL focuses on capture and access applications for mobile devices and smart environments. Before joining FXPAL in early 2007, Scott was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on tool support for needfinding and early-stage experimentation with ubiquitous computing applications. Scott completed his PhD dissertation, "Supporting early-stage ubicomp experimentation", in 2007.

Jessica Parker

School of Education, University of California, Berkeley

Jessica Parker is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Her areas of interest include literacy theory and media education, and her dissertation analyzes the production processes of student filmmakers within an integrated media literacy curriculum. Before returning to UC Berkeley to earn her doctorate, Jessica taught English and ELL at the middle school and high school levels and also lectured on the sociology of sport in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. She holds both a Master’s degree in Education (1998) and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications (1996) from UC Berkeley. Alongside completing her dissertation, Jessica is collaborating with Digital Youth project researchers to write a book entitled "Teaching the iGeneration: Bringing Informal Learning to the Classroom", which will provide practical advice on using and designing learning opportunities for students in school settings.

Lisa Tripp

Assistant Professor of School Media and Youth Services, College of Information, Florida State University

Lisa received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego in 2002 and began collaborating on the digital youth research project while working as an ethnographer and associate director of USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML). Her research and teaching address young people and the media, with an emphasis on media education pedagogy and youth-produced media. She has worked as an ethnographer and educational program developer on a variety of projects with organizations including the UCSD’s Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence, and La Clase Mágica, as well as the Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project. At the IML, she helped develop professional development programs for teachers related to media arts and media literacy, and also conducted research related to those initiatives.

Jennifer Urban

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, USC Law School
The United States' transition from its traditional manufacturing base to a digital powerhouse has given rise to a rich information economy and a market for creative goods that is vastly different from previous markets. While consumers are now able to more closely interact with creative goods (such as movies, music, and e-books) than ever before, the same digital technology that allows myriad uses of creative goods can also “lock up” those goods or track consumers' habits at an intimate level. Such dramatic economic changes have radically altered the legal landscape as well, sparking intriguing questions of ownership, fair use, privacy and national security.

As the director of the Intellectual Property Clinic--recently formed by the USC Law School, the USC Annenberg Center for Communication, and USC Information Services Division--Jennifer Urban is one of the key players at the university seeking answers to these issues and many more.

“Large players with a great deal of resources have a lot of input into the discussion, of course, as they should: intellectual property law is aimed at incentivizing creation by economic actors,” says Urban. “But the public is meant to benefit the most from intellectual property law and stands to lose if it is not employed well. So I think that extending the debate and thinking through the issues clearly is very important.” [Full interview]

The IP clinic participates in this process by enabling advanced law students to work on cutting-edge public interest issues in intellectual property and technology law. The clinic seeks to give them practical experience through projects such as helping “starving artists” register copyrights and working on open source licenses, as well as encourage the young lawyers how to think through the complex public policy questions surrounding intellectual property in the digital age.