Hi. I am Barry Joseph.
I am formerly the VP of Digital Experience at the Girl Scouts of the USA and Associate Director For Digital Learning at the American Museum of Natural History.
When I began at the Museum I used this blog to talk about my adventures, exploring issues related to digital media and museum-based learning. I featured original interviews, thought pieces, and highlights from my work and those of my colleagues at the AMNH.
Starting in 2020, with the launch of Barry Joseph Consultancy, LLC, I turned this blog into a place to explore digital engagement writ large.
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Category Archives: Barry Joseph Consulting
NYC Youth & Gaming, part 3: Community as Context for Gaming
The first part of this research project, detailed in the previous post, explored what games youth are playing and how they use games to manage their feelings and shape their identity. In other words, games and the self. The second … Continue reading
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NYC Youth & Gaming, part 2: Managing Feelings, Shaping Identities
In this post we will look at how NYC teens use video games to manage their feelings and shape their identity. This is the second of four posts (the previous being Re-centering Around Agency). 5. GAMES THEY PLAY The 20 … Continue reading
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Winner of the GEE! Learning Games Award (Informal Learning Game category)
Last May I announced I would be leading the informal learning category within the Madison, Wisconsin-based Play Make Learn Conference‘s 2021 James Paul Gee Learning Games Award. Below I am excited to announce which game won, and why. As a … Continue reading
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NYC Youth & Gaming, part 1: Re-centering Around Agency
1. TEENS, VIDEO GAMES, & AGENCY Earlier this year I was tasked with learning what roles video games play in the lives of NYC teenagers – specifically Black and brown high school students. I entered the project well aware of … Continue reading
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eSports Students Use Video Games for College Outreach
This past week I had the pleasure of producing an eSporting event led by City College of New York students for Harlem Week. Harlem Week is an annual celebration of “the best of Harlem.” CCNY, located in West Harlem, offered … Continue reading
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Curated List of Games for Civic Identity
This month I had the pleasure of working with Andy Robertson, who founded and runs the amazing Family Video Game Database, to highlight a collection of video games that can develop a deep sense of civic identity. If you are … Continue reading
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What happened when a museum asked itself What data is driving our decision making?
Madlyn Larson has worked at the Natural History Museum of Utah leading Research Quest for over a decade. Research Quest leverages the Museum’s collections and their research for science learning in middle school classrooms. I began working with Madlyn last … Continue reading
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The ONE Game to Play to Understand Your Teenage Gamer
Perhaps nothing creates more anxiety for adults than imagining what their teens are up to when no one is watching. That’s why my ears perked up when I read this quote in a New York Times interview with Richard Tyler … Continue reading
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Announcing the Informal Learning Game category within the GEE! Learning Games Award
In the past year have you done… anything? Given the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and systemic racism, if you’re even just still here to read this I KNOW you deserve an award. But if you ALSO created a learning game … Continue reading
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When Worlds Collide: Is Digital Design Denigrating or Saving Museums?
Yesterday, I spent an hour with five African-American and Latinx boys from West Harlem. All gamers. Over Zoom, we chatted about the role games played in their lives, how it helps them to be who they want to be in … Continue reading
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