Scratch Collab Camps
Studies of how youth develop agency to organize and participate in online unstructured creative collaborations. We describe and analyze how youth programmers organized collaborative groups in response to a programming “Collab Challenge” in the Scratch Online Community and in an accompanying workshop with high school students. The analyses focused on modalities of online collaborations, determined the breadth of online participation, and examined local teens’ awareness of the online community. The discussion addresses youth’s collaborative agency in these new networked contexts, studies the role that online social awareness plays in completing tasks, and makes recommendations for the support of online programming communities.
Contributors
Deborah Fields, Quinn Burke, Ricarose Roque