Rafi Santo is a researcher, educator, and designer currently pursuing a doctorate in the Learning Sciences at Indiana University. He is interested in learning, technology, democracy and participatory culture. Rafi’s current work involves using ethnographic approaches to understand diffusion of learning innovations in the Digital Media & Learning field, promoting systems thinking through digital design, and empowering youth in relation to new media through hacker literacies. You can Follow him on Twitter at @empathetics and on his blog at empathetics.org.