In celebration of Media Literacy Week, MASCLab is playtesting LAMBOOZLED!, our deck-building card game designed to teach youth news literacy! Join us in Horace Mann 424 on Wednesday, October 23rd during our usual meeting time (12:00 – 1:00PM) for a research demo and playtesting. About LAMBOOZLED! Grounded in current research on news literacy and youth media habits, LAMBOOZLED! is a deck-building card game set in … Continue reading Media Literacy Week: October 21st – 25th!

Dr. Hannah Smithson, director of the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, joined MASCLab in order to present her most recent project and to continue fostering a relationship with other departments committed to social impact and change, specifically in the area of youth justice. Dr. Smithson and her team partnered with youth involved with the Justice system to discover what actually matters … Continue reading Dr. Hannah Smithson calls for a different approach to research with young people

The Visual Research for Social Change conference lives on! Following up on a successful (and fun!) conference last year, the VRSC Conference is happening again on April 23 at Teachers College. To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of maximum 300 words and 1-3 visual artifacts as attachments or links (images, videos, links to online resources, etc) to visualresearchforsocialchange@gmail.com by February 28, 2019. See … Continue reading Submissions open for the 2nd Visual Research for Social Change (VRSC) Conference: April 23, 2019