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Exchanging Online Narratives For Leisure: A Legitimate Learning Space, N. F. Johnson
Exchanging Online Narratives For Leisure: A Legitimate Learning Space, N. F. Johnson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
The Story Exchange section of the Sims 2 website offers Sims 2 players a forum to read andreview other players’ original stories which they have written while playing The Sims 2. This article draws on interview data from Sarah, a 15-year-old female involved in reading and evaluating these online stories. Analysis of Sarah’s experiences in playing The Sims 2 and using the Story Exchange website suggest that players who engage with these particular online narratives determine quality indicators of the stories, without guidance or instruction from external structures or authorities. Following this point, this Story Exchange is presented not only …
Generational Differences In Beliefs About Technological Expertise, N. F. Johnson
Generational Differences In Beliefs About Technological Expertise, N. F. Johnson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Drawing on Bourdieu’s (1990, 1998, 2000) socio-cultural theories, this article explores the construction of technological expertise amongst a heterogenous group of New Zealand teenagers, specifically in regard to their home computer use, which for many of them is their primary site of leisure. The qualitative study involved observations and interviews with eight teenagers aged 13–17. All the participants considered themselves to be technological experts, and their peers and/or their family supported this self-description. This article examines differences between the concepts and value of learning, expertise, and technology, and how they are valued differently between generations. After discussing the habitus (dispositions) …
Teenage Technological Experts’ Views Of Schooling, N. F. Johnson
Teenage Technological Experts’ Views Of Schooling, N. F. Johnson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Utilising Pierre Bourdieu’s formula for studying social practice, this study explored the construction of technological expertise amongst a heterogenous group of New Zealand teenagers. The qualitative study employed observations and interviews with five boys and three girls aged 13 – 17, who considered themselves to be technological experts; their peers and/or their family also considered them to be technological experts. For seven of the eight participants, their primary site of leisure was their home computer use. This article gives some examples about how the participants’ understand schooling and its relevance to them. It engages with ideas concerning the performance of …
Cyber-Relations In The Field Of Home Computer Use For Leisure: Bourdieu And Teenage Technological Experts, N. F. Johnson
Cyber-Relations In The Field Of Home Computer Use For Leisure: Bourdieu And Teenage Technological Experts, N. F. Johnson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
This article highlights the practice of a group of New Zealand teenagers who are considered by their family and themselves to be technological experts. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s key concepts of habitus, field and capital, this text identifies and discusses the cyber-relations that constitute the practice in the field of home computer use for leisure. The purpose of this article is to claim that though this field is predominantly a field of leisure, these are valid sites of informal learning. As almost all of the experts in the study gained their expertise through independent means, with minimal input from their …