I'm a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley's School of Information (formerly SIMS). My work looks at the relations between youth and new media. At Berkeley, I am advised by Jenna Burrell and Paul Duguid. I'm also a researcher for Mimi Ito at the Digital Media and Learning Studio at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Previously, I was a member of The Digital Youth Project, a three year ethnographic study funded by the MacArthur Foundation. In November 2008 we released our final report, "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media." The full report is available for free here and is also available as a book from MIT Press. Before beginning the PhD I worked in experience design, both as a masters student at the School of Information and in industry. I received my masters from UC Berkeley's School of Information in 2007 and my BA from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME in 2000.

Please feel free to contact me: christo [at] sims [dot] berkeley [dot] edu