SXSW is winding down for me -- we had a fun party last night at Cafe Mundi. The teens from The Cypher performed their hearts out as did Blues Mafia, impressing all the adults in the audience. I think we infused SXSW with a little teen spirit this year for sure. The kind folks from Blastbeat took a bunch of photos, which I'll post on Flickr as soon as I have them. Instead of attempting to reconstruct my handwritten notes from the Steven Johnson/Henry Jenkins discussion, I'll link to Ian Schafer's summary. You can also watch the Henry Jenkins/danah boyd keynote from last summer's Ypulse Mashup here.

Interesting names/links mentioned in the keynote:

The Harry Potter Alliance
Justine Cassell (research on young people and language)
Bowling Alone (on community in the U.S.)
Collective Intelligence

Henry also talked about the importance of not lumping all "screen time" together and decried the negative connotations of using the word addiction to talk about spending too much time with technology. He instead suggested examining what is compelling about kids' games or online time and figuring out how to apply them offline and in education. He believes that depression may be driving compulsive users more than the technology itself and asserted that China is attempting to control its youth by using the label of addiction.

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