EDGU1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deep Learning, Danah Boyd, John Cleese

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Education
• Course: EDGU1002
• Professor: Josephine Fleming

Document Summary

Making the familiar strange: looking at our current culture means stepping back from what is normal and seeing it from another perspective. The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body. Convergence culture" intersection of media convergence culture, participatory culture and intelligence. Important to distinguish between the act of participation and the tools that facilitate participation. Youtube, instagram, twitter are not examples of participatory culture in themselves they are a tool of participatory culture. Game/affinity paradigm: gee (2015) sees these passionate affinity spaces as a subset of interest-driven sites within what he terms the game/affinity paradigm or gap. Players can join these sites to discuss the game"s physics or to redesign the game ( mod it ) thus learning technical design skills. What is fan fiction: fan fiction can be described as original and transformative works whose characters and settings are borrow or poached" as prompts for writing and designing (black, 2004;