ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Ableism, Crowdsourcing
5 Oct 2012
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Disabilism: is a set of assumptions (conscious or unconscious) and practices that promote the differential or unequal treatment of people because of actually or presumed disabilities. Ableism: refers to network of beliefs, processes and practices that produce a particular kind of self and body (the corporeal standard) that is projected as the perfect, species-typical and therefore essential and fully human. Epic win: an outcome that is so extraordinarily positive you had no idea it was even possible until you achieved. 500 million people: urgent optimism, weaving a tight social fabric, blissful productivity, epic meaning. Games are high technology that extend our minds, more specifically perhaps, It extends or even replaces our natural faculties our imaginations. Games are sophisticated systems that model incredible complex processes in pixelated parody of both real and unreal worlds.
