Resume

• 2004

  M.A.

  Thesis: “Campaign-casting and Commodified Participation: An Evaluation of Candidates’ Online Spaces in the 2005 NYC Mayoral Election.”

  Psychology

  City University of New York-Hunter College

  Ph.D.

  Dissertation: “MyDigitalFootprint.ORG: Young People and the Proprietary Ecology of Everyday Data.”\n\nCommittee: Cindi Katz (Chair)

  Michelle Fine

  Joseph Glick

  Joan Greenbaum

  Torin Monahan

  and Anders Albrechtslund.

  Environmental Psychology

  Interactive Technology & Pedagogy

  City University of New York Graduate Center

  The Contemporary City

  Surveillance in the Cybercity

  General Psychology: Social and Clinical Processes

  Environmental Psychology

  Explorations in Digital Design

  Introduction to New Media

  Social Psychology

  Research Methods

  Digital Media and Public Responsibility

  Digital Media

  Society

  and the Self

  Digital Media and Cyberculture

  Young People

  Planning and the City

  Doctoral Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

  The Graduate Center

  City University of New York (CUNY)

• 2000

  B.A.

  Professional Certification in Industrial/Organizational Psychology

  Psychology

  Psy-Chi National Honor Society

  Psychology Club

  Marymount Manhattan College

• Web Design

  University Teaching

  Community Outreach

  Teaching

  Market Research

  Statistics

  SPSS

  HTML

  Qualitative Research

  Higher Education

  Research

  Program Evaluation

  Student Affairs

  Grant Writing

  Curriculum Development

  Editing

  E-Learning

  Program Development

  Psychology

  Cookie Monsters: Seeing Young People’s Hacking As Creative Practice

  Cindi Katz

  This paper examines the benefits and obstacles to young people’s open-ended and unrestricted access to technological environments. While children and youth are frequently seen as threatened or threatening in this realm

  their playful engagements suggest that they are self-possessed social actors

  able to negotiate most of its challenges effectively. Whether it is proprietary software

  the business practices of some technology providers

  or the separation of play

  work

  and learning in most classrooms

  the spatial-temporality of young people’s access to and use of technology is often configured to restrict their freedom of choice and behavior. We focus on these issues through the lens of technological interactions known as “hacking

  ” wherein people playfully engage computer technologies for the intrinsic pleasure of seeing what they can do. We argue for an approach to technology that welcomes rather than constrains young people’s explorations

  suggesting that it will not only help them to better understand and manage their technological environments

  but also foster their critical capacities and creativity.

  Cookie Monsters: Seeing Young People’s Hacking As Creative Practice

  Setha Low

  Gates Not Walls as a Securitization Strategy: Gated Communities and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York. In M. Stephenson and L. Zanotti

  eds.

  Setha Low

  This article develops the concept of shoestring democracy as a way to characterize the resulting social relations of private governance structures embedded in two types of collective housing schemes found in New York City and the adjoining suburbs: gated condominium communities and market-rate cooperative apartment complexes. Drawing from ethnographies of gated condominiums and co-ops in New York City and neighboring Nassau County

  New York

  we compare these two forms of collective home ownership regarding the impact of private governance structures on residents and their sense of representation and participation in ongoing community life. “Shoestring democracy” encompasses a broad range of behaviors utilized to insulate residents from local conflicts and disagreements

  and limits rather than promotes political participation. The greatest differences between the co-ops and gated condominiums were found in discussions of safety and security

  in that condominium residents have developed an elaborate discourse of the fear of crime and others

  especially racialized others

  to explain why they moved to their secured communities. Co-op interviewees

  on the other hand

  generally felt a sense of safety in their buildings

  often due to the gatekeeper effect of the co-op board and doormen. In gated communities

  covenants

  contracts

  and deed restrictions guarantee that most problems are resolved before they start. While the same can be said for co-ops

  interviewees find that these rules and regulations seem to mystify everyday governing practices for the average co-op resident. Moral minimalism and a lack of structural and procedural knowledge may insulate residents from local conflicts and disagreement

  but also may discourage civic participation.

  Shoestring Democracy: Gated Condominiums and Market-Rate Cooperatives in New York

  Gregory T.

  Donovan

  Public Space Research Group

  Sesame Workshop

  The Macaulay Honors College

  The Doctoral Students' Council

  OpenCUNY Academic Medium

  Marymount Manhattan College

  Saint Peter's University

  Stanton/Heiskell Telecommunications Policy Center

  Fordham University

  Macaulay Honors College

  Senior Instructional Technology Fellow

  Greater New York City Area

  Macaulay Honors College

  The Doctoral Students' Council

  Freelance Researcher

  Sesame Workshop

  Fordham University

  New York

  New York

  Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies

  Greater New York City Area

  The Macaulay Honors College

  Founder & Coordinator

  OpenCUNY Academic Medium

  Technology & Literacy Specialist

  Stanton/Heiskell Telecommunications Policy Center

  Saint Peter's University

  Jersey City

  NJ

  Assistant Professor of Urban Studies

  Courses: Environmental Psychology; Social Psychology; General Psychology; Digital Media

  Society & The Self

  Marymount Manhattan College

  Research Assistant

  Public Space Research Group