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Digital Activism

Digital Activism. NCLC 348, 2013 10 9. IFTTT. Favorite Tweets  Google. My Tweets  Evernote. Participatory Culture Has…. relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement strong support for creating and sharing one ’ s creations

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Digital Activism

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  1. Digital Activism NCLC 348, 2013 10 9

  2. IFTTT

  3. Favorite Tweets  Google

  4. My Tweets  Evernote

  5. Participatory Culture Has… • relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement • strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations • informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices • where members believe their contributions matter • feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created) Henry Jenkins

  6. Forms of PC • Affiliationsmemberships, formal and informal, in online communities centered around various forms of media, such as Friendster, Facebook, message boards, metagaming, game clans, or MySpace. • Expressionsproducing new creative forms, such as digital sampling, skinning and modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction writing, zines, mash-ups. • Collaborative Problem-solvingworking together in teams, formal and informal, to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (such as through Wikipedia, alternative reality gaming, spoiling). • CirculationsShaping the flow of media (such as podcasting, blogging)

  7. Skills for PC • Playthe capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving • Performancethe ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery • Simulationthe ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes • Appropriationthe ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content

  8. Skills for PC cont’d • Multitaskingthe ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details. • Distributed Cognitionthe ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities • Collective Intelligencethe ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal • Judgmentthe ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources

  9. And cont’d • Transmedia Navigationthe ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities • Networkingthe ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information • Negotiationthe ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.

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