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Becky Herr

becky@stephenson.tv

Becky Herr Stephenson is an Associate Specialist at the University of California Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine. Becky’s research interests include media literacy, teaching and learning with popular culture, and youth media production. Her dissertation, Kids as Cultural Producers: Consumption, Literacy, and Participation investigates issues of access and media literacy through an ethnographic study of media production projects in two mixed-grade (6th, 7th, and 8th) special education classes. Previously, she was a member of the research team for the Digital Youth Project and a graduate fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication. Prior to beginning her graduate studies, Becky worked as a production manager for companies producing original content for the web and multimedia museum exhibits. Her current work with the DMLstudio involves a literature review of institutional efforts related to youth digital media production. Becky recently completed her Ph.D. in Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.