{"id":289,"date":"2019-06-06T07:24:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0115\/?p=289"},"modified":"2019-09-20T08:38:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:38:56","slug":"networks-and-participatory-culture-unit-3-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0115\/networks-and-participatory-culture-unit-3-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Networks and participatory culture [Unit 3 reflections]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this blog post, I would like to reflect on the impact of online communities on my digital identity and cultivation of my digital presence.<\/p>\n

Henri and Pudelko (2003) distinguish four different types of virtual communities: “communities of interest, goal\u2010oriented communities of interest, learners\u2019 community, and community of practice” (as quoted in Veletsianos, 2016). Furthermore, as Veletsianos (2016) asserts, the networks are multi-faceted entities, comprised of individual networks, all based on individual relationships (p. 244). As such they are uneven, uncertain, diverse, borderless,\u00a0 and clustered\u00a0 (Dron & Andreson, 2014).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I find myself on the crossroad between all these different online communities, which integrate my personal and professional interests, my work-related communities, which include both my colleagues as well as students and my own educational communities. All of these communities integrate people from my past and present and are very dynamic and diverse in terms of their interaction, content, and contributions.<\/p>\n

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Participation in digital communities, as\u00a0Veletsianos (2016) calls them, is determined by this new participatory culture, which “shifts the focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement” (Jenkins, 2009, p. xiii).\u00a0 Contribution to these communities is defined by the participation and invites feedback, as well as contribution, thus producing “networked learners”, who “through participation in networks that reify their interactions, are almost always \u201cprosumers\u201d\u2014people who both consume and produce network content” (Bruns, 2008, as cited in Dron & Andreson, 2014, p. 144).\u00a0 Therefore content creation and contribution to the networks are “pivotal in providing tools for knowledge construction and tools for sharing and expanding on that knowledge” (p. 144).<\/p>\n

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References:<\/p>\n

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Dron, J, & Andreson, T. (2014).\u00a0Teaching Crowds<\/i><\/a>. Athabasca University Press.<\/div>\n
Jenkins, H. (2009). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century<\/i>. Cambridge: MIT Press.<\/div>\n
Veletsianos, G. (2016).\u00a0Digital learning environments<\/a>. In N. Rushby & D. Surry (Eds.),\u00a0Handbook of Learning Technologies<\/i>\u00a0(pp. 242-260). UK: John Wiley & Sons.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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