Ellen Middaugh, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at San José State University. She is co-PI for the CLARION (Civic Literacy, Action, & Reasoning in Online Networks) project, conducting research on youth civic development and engagement in the digital age. She previously served as Research Director for the Mills College Civic Engagement Research Group in Oakland, California and Senior Researcher with the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics . She is co-Editor of the volume #youthaction: Becoming Political in the Digital Age (with Ben Kirshner). Recent publications include More than just facts: Promoting civic media literacy in the era of outrage and Did you know?!...Cultivating online public voice in youth (with Chris Evans).
ellen.middaugh@sjsu.edu