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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) …
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 …