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"Research Remix" Contest Winners Announced

From Amy Potthast, Editor of The New Service.


Last October, we wrote about the launch of Issue Lab's Research Remix Contest, which challenged digital artists and videographers to remix facts or data from one of over 300 openly licensed research reports on the IssueLab website into a video.

This week, IssueLab, the online publishing forum for nonprofit research, announced the winning video. Erin Costello's "Girls Risk High Morals" was inspired by a study called High Tech or High Risk: Moral Panic about Girls Online by Justin Cassell and Meg Cramer.

Cassell and Cramer argue that new technologies, and girls' use of them, causes panic among parents and educators – fearful of predators but possibly more fearful because "[t]he Internet dangerously unfetters girls' spaces and risks changing our image of what girls can do, and where they can go." Watch the video here, or visit this page to read more about the contest and see who judged the submissions.