University of California, Berkeley, School of Information

The University of California, Berkeley’s (Berkeley) mission is to be a place where all people can pursue excellence in scholarship, leadership, and innovation, and to illuminate solutions for bettering the human condition. The award supports the Tech Policy Initiative, a joint effort among the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Center for Information Technology Research, and the Information School at Berkeley. The Tech Policy Initiative aims to strengthen multidisciplinary scholarly collaborations, foster technology policy education, and innovation, and inform effective technology-related policy strategies across the public and private sectors. It hosts fellowships and convenings and produces research and public knowledge on a range of policy issues at the intersection of technology and society.

In support of a multi-site ethnographic study of how young people use digital media, and to what effect (over three years).