http://www.learninginvideogames.com/general/affinity-spaces-and-learning/ Videogame research, educational video games, learning in video games Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.learninginvideogames.com/general/affinity-spaces-and-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Affinity spaces, secondary orality & digital epistemologies. | dougbelshaw.com/blog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:25:35 +0000 http://www.learninginvideogames.com/general/affinity-spaces-and-learning/#comment-1114 [...] This post is to summarize what I’ve been learning (and attempting to synthesize) about so-called ‘affinity spaces’, ’secondary orality’ and ‘digital epistemologies’. Much of the following comes from, or was thinking provoked by, Lankshear and Knobel’s New Literacies (2006). My notes on the books and articles mentioned, as ever, are available at dougbelshaw.com/wiki. Literacy is all about communication. Literacy therefore is all about creating or reading texts for a particular purpose. This doesn’t change when we move into the realm of ‘digital literac(ies)’. It was Gee (2004) who came up with notion of ‘affinity spaces’. These spaces are characterized by the following elements (taken from this useful post): [...] [...] This post is to summarize what I’ve been learning (and attempting to synthesize) about so-called ‘affinity spaces’, ’secondary orality’ and ‘digital epistemologies’. Much of the following comes from, or was thinking provoked by, Lankshear and Knobel’s New Literacies (2006). My notes on the books and articles mentioned, as ever, are available at dougbelshaw.com/wiki. Literacy is all about communication. Literacy therefore is all about creating or reading texts for a particular purpose. This doesn’t change when we move into the realm of ‘digital literac(ies)’. It was Gee (2004) who came up with notion of ‘affinity spaces’. These spaces are characterized by the following elements (taken from this useful post): [...]

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