Rebecca Black

Informatics

Rebecca Black is an associate professor in the department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2006 and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2002. Her research interests center on how young people, particularly those who feel marginalized in traditional academic settings, are using new technologies to learn, create, and communicate.