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What Happens Off the Field? Proposing a Rhetorical Approach of the Affinity Spaces Surrounding Games
Vlieghe Joachim, Bourgonjon Jeroen, Rutten Kris, Soetaert Ronald
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Observation about studies on games and learning…
INTRODUCTION
IN games SURROUNDING games
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INTRODUCTIONObservation about studies on games and learning…
IN games
“Studies of gamer communities suggest the importance of not just focusing on games, but looking at gamer discourse to understand emerging digital
literacies. (…) Like video games themselves, gaming communities are interactive in nature, frequently functioning as spaces for participating in
social practices with a life beyond the boundaries of the game itself.”
Kurt Squire (2008) Video-Game Literacy: A Literacy of Expertise, pp. 653 and 644
SURROUNDING games
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INTRODUCTIONObservation about studies on games and learning…
IN games
“Studies of gamer communities suggest the importance of not just focusing on games, but looking at gamer discourse to understand emerging digital
literacies. (…) Like video games themselves, gaming communities are interactive in nature, frequently functioning as spaces for participating in
social practices with a life beyond the boundaries of the game itself.”
Kurt Squire (2008) Video-Game Literacy: A Literacy of Expertise, pp. 653 and 644
SURROUNDING games
MORE LESS
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affinity spaces (Gee)
communities of practice (Lave & Wenger)
THEORYCentral concepts…
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Communities as living curricula
… getting acquainted with symbols and practices of a particular community.
Social learning in…
THEORY
communities of practice (Lave & Wenger)
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excludes certain people and practices.
communities
Criticism
The presumption of membership…
THEORY
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Shift the focus of research from…
Suggestion
to
THEORY
communities
spaces
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“In affinity spaces people ‘bond’ first and foremost to an endeavor or interest and secondarily if at all, to each other.”
James Paul Gee (2007) Affinity Spaces: From Age of Mythology to Today’s Schools, p. 98.
Observation
THEORY
affinity spaces (Gee)
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Community membership is based on imagined ties.
Historical interdisciplinairy relations
THEORY
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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Historical interdisciplinairy relations
Symbolic representation: abstraction of differences among members.
THEORY
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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Non-hierarchical bonding over an endeavour is a temporary state.
Historical interdisciplinairy relations
THEORY
Temporary Autonomous Zone (Bey)
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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“(…) one [has] to work in the knowledge that whatever one [says is] going to be systematically received in radically heterogeneous ways that we [are] neither able nor entitled to prescribe.”
Mary-Louise Pratt (1991) Arts of the Contact Zone, p.39
Historical interdisciplinairy relations
THEORY
Contact Zone (Pratt)
Temporary Autonomous Zone (Bey)
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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Educational spaces should honor difference and
conflict.
Historical interdisciplinairy relations
THEORY
Contact Zone (Pratt)
Temporary Autonomous Zone (Bey)
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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InsightsCommunity, not as a necessity but a potential resource for learning.
THEORY
Contact Zone (Pratt)
Temporary Autonomous Zone (Bey)
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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Community, not as a necessity but a potential resource for learning.
Community formation, as a process of identification through symbols and practices (filtering away differences).
Insights
THEORY
Contact Zone (Pratt)
Temporary Autonomous Zone (Bey)
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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Community, not as a necessity but a potential resource for learning.
Community formation, as a process of identification through symbols and practices (filtering away differences).
Uninstitutionalized space, as an environment where unsegregated collaboration is possible for a limited period of time.
Insights
THEORY
Contact Zone (Pratt)
Temporary Autonomous Zone (Bey)
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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Space for conflict, as a scene where multiple perspectives are allowed and honored.
Community, not as a necessity but a potential resource for learning.
Community formation, as a process of identification through symbols and practices (filtering away differences).
Uninstitutionalized space, as an environment where unsegregated collaboration is possible for a limited period of time.
Insights
THEORY
Contact Zone (Pratt)
Temporary Autonomous Zone (Bey)
imagined communities (Anderson)
affinity spaces (Gee)
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METHODOLOGYDefining the object of studyHow are communities formed in affinity spaces?
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METHODOLOGYDefining the object of studyHow are communities formed in affinity spaces?
Learning to identify and to participate.
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ongoing argumentative conversations in which people engage temporarily by identifying with others.
METHODOLOGY
Affinity spaces as…
Defining the object of study
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An observation from the field of New Rhetoric…
“Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal.”
Kenneth Burke (1966) Language as symbolic action, p.16
METHODOLOGYRhetorical approach
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“Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal.”
Kenneth Burke (1966) Language as symbolic action, p.16
METHODOLOGYRhetorical approachAn observation from the field of New Rhetoric…
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human symbol use
METHODOLOGYSuggestions from New Rhetoric…
How to study affinity spaces?
Analysis
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METHODOLOGY
shifting, broadening and enlarging the scope.
Circumference
Suggestions from New Rhetoric…
How to study affinity spaces?
human symbol use.
Analysis
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METHODOLOGYSuggestions from New Rhetoric…
How to study affinity spaces?
shifting, broadening and enlarging the scope.
Circumference
human symbol use.
Analysis“(…) the playing field extends beyond the game itself to the social context and the rhetorical perspectives (intentional or otherwise) of its creators.”
Colleen Macklin (2010) in Henry Jenkins, Ethics and Game Design: A Conversation (Part Two)
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METHODOLOGYSuggestions from New Rhetoric…
How to study affinity spaces?
shifting, broadening and enlarging the scope.
Circumference
human symbol use.
Analysis
• Artifacts (or practices)• Public discussion surrounding them
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METHODOLOGYSuggestions from New Rhetoric…
How to study affinity spaces?
shifting, broadening and enlarging the scope.
Circumference
human symbol use.
Analysis
• Artifacts (or practices)• Public discussion surrounding them
Selection and deflection of reality.
Screens or perpectives.
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METHODOLOGYSuggestions from New Rhetoric…
How to study affinity spaces?
shifting, broadening and enlarging the scope.
Circumference
human symbol use.
Analysis
• Artifacts (or practices)• Public discussion surrounding them
Selection and deflection of reality.
Screens or perpectives.
“(…) directs the attention to one field rather than another.”
Kenneth Burke (1966) Language as symbolic action, p.50
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METHODOLOGYSuggestion from New Rhetoric…
How to study affinity spaces?
shifting, broadening and enlarging the scope.
Circumference
human symbol use.
Analysis
• Artifacts (or practices)• Public discussion surrounding them
Selection and deflection of reality.
Screens or perpectives.
Identification and division with others.
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METHODOLOGYFocus on spaces where gamers share experiences.
Collecting data…
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METHODOLOGYFocus on spaces where gamers share experiences.
Collecting data…
For instance: online forums, chat rooms, …
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METHODOLOGY
Focus on language, argumentation and conflict.
Analyzing data…
Focus on spaces where gamers share experiences.
Collecting data…
For instance: online forums, chat rooms, …
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METHODOLOGY
o General clusterso Theme-specific clusters
For instance:
• Clustering words and symbols (signaling different perspectives).
Focus on language, argumentation and conflict.
Analyzing data…
Focus on spaces where gamers share experiences.
Collecting data…
For instance: online forums, chat rooms, …
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METHODOLOGY
• Focusing on argumentation and conflict (signaling dominant clusters).
o Extension of previous arguments (identification)o Challenges of previous arguments (oppositions – division)
o General clusterso Theme-specific clusters
For instance:
• Clustering words and symbols (signaling different perspectives).
Focus on language, argumentation and conflict.
Analyzing data…
Focus on spaces where gamers share experiences.
Collecting data…
For instance: online forums, chat rooms, …
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Value for education
VALUEA rhetorical approach in game studies…
anthropology of learning in a digital culture.
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Value for education
VALUE
Emerging forms of learning and literacy.
A rhetorical approach in game studies…
anthropology of learning in a digital culture.
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Value for education
VALUE
Emerging forms of learning and literacy.
A rhetorical approach in game studies…
anthropology of learning in a digital culture.
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Value for education
VALUE
literacy
… as a social construction.
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Value for education
VALUE
literacy
… institutionalisation of identification.
Establishing a community of practice through…
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Value for education
VALUEMeta perspective for educators…
on how learners established a shared notion of what is valuable (for) learning.