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2025

29.

Zehrung, Rachael; Cawelti, Lora; Steenis, Erica Van; Soria, Verenisse Ponce; Mendoza, Guadalupe Aileen; Arum, Richard; Chen, Yunan; Ahn, June

“How DidWe Miss It?”: Examining the Infrastructural Work of Practitioners Supporting Housing Insecure and Foster Youth Students Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 1-26, 2025.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, DBIR, educational change, equity and inclusion, HCI, improvement science, infrastructuring, k12 education, leadership, RPP

2024

28.

Kundu, Anindya; Liu, Yimeng; Ahn, June

“I Got it from my Mama:” The influence of working-class parents on young people’s cultural capital for success in school and work Journal Article

In: Equity in Education & Society, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 297–316, 2024.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: capital, career, community, culture, equity and inclusion, family, funds of knowledge, social capital

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Anderson-Coto, Maria J; Salazar, Julie; Lopez, John Louis-Strakes; Sedas, R Mishael; Campos, Fabio; Bustamante, Andres S; Ahn, June

Towards culturally sustaining design: Centering community’s voices for learning through Participatory Design Journal Article

In: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, vol. 39, pp. 100621, 2024.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, culture, family, funds of knowledge, HCI, informal learning, participatory design, play and games

2023

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Clegg, Tamara; Hernly, Kenna; Ahn, June; Yip, Jason; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Pauw, Daniel; Pitt, Caroline

Changing lanes: Relational dispositions that fuel community science learning Journal Article

In: American Educational Research Journal, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 621–661, 2023.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, culture, equity and inclusion, family, funds of knowledge, HCI, identity, informal learning, infrastructuring, learning sciences, RPP, social media, STEM

25.

Bermudez, Vanessa N; Salazar, Julie; Garcia, Leiny; Ochoa, Karlena D; Pesch, Annelise; Roldan, Wendy; Soto-Lara, Stephanie; Gomez, Wendy; Rodriguez, Rigoberto; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; others,

Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community Journal Article

In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 65, pp. 205–216, 2023.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, culture, family, funds of knowledge, informal learning, infrastructuring, participatory design, play and games, STEM

2022

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Belgrave, Ashlee; Bermudez, Vanessa N; Chew, Phebe; Lin, Yiwen; Ahn, June; Bustamante, Andres S

Using a participatory design approach for co-creating culturally situated STEM enrichment activities Journal Article

In: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, vol. 82, pp. 101451, 2022.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, culture, equity and inclusion, family, funds of knowledge, informal learning, participatory design, play and games, STEM

23.

Pesch, Annelise; Ochoa, Karlena D; Fletcher, Katelyn K; Bermudez, Vanessa N; Todaro, Rachael D; Salazar, Julie; Gibbs, Hailey M; Ahn, June; Bustamante, Andres S; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy

Reinventing the public square and early educational settings through culturally informed, community co-design: Playful Learning Landscapes Journal Article

In: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, pp. 933320, 2022.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, culture, equity and inclusion, family, funds of knowledge, informal learning, infrastructuring, participatory design, play and games, STEM

22.

Garcia, Leiny; Roldan, Wendy; Bermudez, Vanessa N; Bustamante, Andres S; Ahn, June

Elevating the ways in which Latina mothers perceive, do, and envision early STEM learning Best Paper Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), International Society of the Learning Sciences Hiroshima, Japan, 2022.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, culture, equity and inclusion, family, funds of knowledge, informal learning, participatory design, play and games, STEM

2021

21.

Chew, Phebe; Lin, Yiwen; Bermudez, Vanessa N; Bustamante, Andres S; Ahn, June

Understanding pedagogical frameworks, relationships, and learning opportunities in community-based participatory design Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting, ISLS 2021.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, infrastructuring, participatory design, RPP, STEM

2019

20.

Mills, Kelly; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Clegg, Tamara; Ahn, June; Yip, Jason; Pauw, Daniel; Hernly, Kenna; Pitt, Caroline

Connecting children’s scientific funds of knowledge shared on social media to science concepts Journal Article

In: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, vol. 21, pp. 54-64, 2019.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, participatory design, RPP, social media, STEM, teachers

19.

Mills, Kelly; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Clegg, Tamara; Yip, Jason; Ahn, June; Pauw, Daniel; Pitt, Caroline

Social media in the science classroom: Bridging funds of knowledge to scientific concepts Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning – CSCL, ISLS Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning – CSCL, Lyon, FR, 2019.

BibTeX | Tags: community, k12 education, participatory design, RPP, social media, STEM, teachers

2018

18.

Cabrera, Lautaro; Ahn, June; Clegg, Tamara; Hernly, Kenna; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Pitt, Caroline; Pauw, Daniel

Exploring practices on the move: Facilitating learning across a neighborhood Best Paper Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2018, ISLS Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2018, London, UK, 2018.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, DBIR, HCI, infrastructuring, participatory design, RPP, social media, STEM

17.

Mills, Kelly; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Clegg, Tamara; Ahn, June; Yip, Jason; Pauw, Daniel; Cabrera, Lautaro; Hernly, Kenna; Pitt, Caroline

Designing to illuminate children’s scientific funds of knowledge through social media sharing Proceedings Article

In: In Proceedings of the 17th Conference for Interaction Design and Children – IDC 2018, ACM In Proceedings of the 17th Conference for Interaction Design and Children – IDC 2018, New York, NY, 2018.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, DBIR, HCI, infrastructuring, participatory design, RPP, social media, STEM

16.

Ahn, June; Clegg, Tamara; Yip, Jason; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Pauw, Daniel; Cabrera, Lautaro; Hernly, Kenna; Pitt, Caroline; Mills, Kelly; Salazar, Arturo; Griffing, Diana; Rick, Jochen; Marr, Rachael

Science Everywhere: Designing public, tangible displays to connect youth learning across settings Proceedings Article

In: In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI 2018, ACM In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI 2018, New York, NY, 2018.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, DBIR, HCI, infrastructuring, participatory design, RPP, social media, STEM

2016

15.

Clegg, Tamara; Ahn, June; Yip, Jason; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Pauw, Daniel

Scientizing with sciencekit: Social media and storytelling mobile apps for developing playful scientific dispositions Journal Article

In: Educational Technology, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 23-28, 2016.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, HCI, informal learning, participatory design, social media, STEM

14.

Yip, Jason; Clegg, Tamara; Ahn, June; Uchidiuno, Judith; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Beck, Austin; Pauw, Daniel; Mills, Kelly

The evolution of engagements and social bonds during child-parent co-design Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2016, ACM Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2016, New York, NY, 2016.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, HCI, participatory design, social media, STEM

2015

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Pauw, Daniel; Clegg, Tamara; Ahn, June; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Yip, Jason; Uchidiuno, Judith

Navigating Connected Inquiry Learning with ScienceKit Proceedings Article

In: Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, International Society of the Learning Sciences Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2015.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, HCI, informal learning, learning sciences, participatory design, social media, STEM

12.

Ahn, June; Webster, Sarah; Butler, Brian

Open Education in the Wild: The Dynamics of Course Production in the Peer 2 Peer University Proceedings Article

In: CSCW '15: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing , ACM CSCW '15: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, New York, NY, 2015.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, HCI, higher education, informal learning, information sciences, infrastructuring, online and blended learning, online communities, social media

2014

11.

Pellicone, Anthony; Ahn, June

Construction and community: Investigating interaction in a minecraft affinity space Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference for Games + Learning + Society - GLS 2014, ETC Press Madison, WI, 2014.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, culture, HCI, informal learning, learning sciences, online communities, play and games, social media

2013

10.

Ahn, June; Butler, Brian; Weng, Cindy; Webster, Sarah

Learning to be a better Q’er in social Q&A sites: Social norms and information artifacts Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 76th Annual Meeting – ASIST2013, Association for Information Science and Technology Montreal, Canada, 2013.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, crowdsourcing, HCI, informal learning, information sciences, online and blended learning, online communities, social media

9.

Kim, Jinyoung; Ahn, June

The show must go on: The presentation of self during interpersonal conflict on facebook Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 76th Annual Meeting – ASIST2013, Association for Information Science and Technology Montreal, Canada, 2013.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, culture, HCI, information sciences, online communities, social media

8.

Ahn, June; Weng, Cindy; Butler, Brian

The dynamics of open, peer-to-peer learning: What factors influence participation in the P2P University? Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences – HICSS, IEEE, Maui, HI, 2013.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, crowdsourcing, higher education, informal learning, information sciences, online and blended learning, online communities

7.

Ahn, June; Gubbels, Michael; Yip, Jason; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Clegg, Tamara

Using social media and learning analytics to understand how children engage in scientific inquiry Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children – IDC2013, ACM New York, NY, 2013.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, crowdsourcing, DBIR, funds of knowledge, HCI, informal learning, learning analytics, participatory design, STEM

6.

Clegg, Tamara; Yip, Jason; Ahn, June; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Gubbels, Michael; Lewittes, Becky; Rhodes, Emily

When face-to-face fails: Opportunities for social media to foster collaborative learning Proceedings Article

In: Tenth International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning – CSCL2013, International Society of the Learning Sciences Madison, WI, 2013.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, crowdsourcing, DBIR, funds of knowledge, HCI, informal learning, participatory design, social media

5.

Waugh, Amanda; Taylor, Natalie Greene; Subramaniam, Mega; Ahn, June; Druin, Allison; Fleischmann, Kenneth R.

Young people’s engagement in content creation: An analysis of outliers Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 76th Annual Meeting – ASIST2013, Association for Information Science and Technology Montreal, Canada, 2013.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, HCI, informal learning, information sciences, k12 education, libraries, online communities, social media, STEM

2012

4.

Ahn, June

Teenagers’ experiences with social network sites: Relationships to bridging and bonding social capital Journal Article

In: The Information Society, vol. 28, iss. 2, pp. 99-109, 2012.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, information sciences, online communities, social capital, social media

3.

Ahn, June

Teenagers and social network sites: Do off-line inequalities predict their online social networks? Journal Article

In: First Monday, vol. 17, iss. 1-2, 2012.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, information sciences, online communities, social capital, social media

2.

Ahn, June; Subramaniam, Mega; Fleischmann, Kenneth R.; Waugh, Amanda; Walsh, Greg; Druin, Allison

Youth identities as remixers in an online community of storytellers: Attitudes, strategies, and values Best Paper Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 75th Annual Meeting – ASIST2012, Association for Information Science and Technology Baltimore, MD, 2012.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, DBIR, HCI, identity, informal learning, information sciences, learning sciences, online communities, participatory design, social media, STEM

1.

Ahn, June; Gubbels, Michael; Kim, Jinyoung; Wu, Johnny

SINQ: Scientific INQuiry learning using social media Proceedings Article

In: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI 2012, ACM New York, NY, 2012.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: community, crowdsourcing, DBIR, funds of knowledge, HCI, informal learning, information sciences, learning sciences, online communities, participatory design, social media, STEM