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Jason Yip was a Research Fellow here at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center in 2013-14. He is currently a Senior Fellow here as well as an assistant professor at the University of Washington. We asked him to share some highlights from his time here, as well as what he is doing now. Tell us a little bit about some of the activities you worked on while you were a Cooney Center Fellow. Sure, some of the highlights of my time…

How on earth do I describe a dream come true? How do I explain what brought me here, why I sought out this special place? I’ll start with a quote from Fred Rogers: Those of us in children’s television are chosen to be servants. We are chosen to help meet the deeper needs of those who watch and listen, day and night. What he said in 1999 still applies today, and to much more than just children’s television. According to…

The Cooney Center is thrilled to announce our new 2010-2011 Research Fellow, Dr. Becky Herr Stephenson. Becky received her Ph.D. in 2008 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include media literacy, teaching and learning with digital media and 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 digital media production in two…