Gatherings happening....

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<<NEXT WEEK IS OUR CON! 

A GATHERING, WITH AND WITHOUT AVATARS >>

YOU SHOULD HAVE A FIRST DRAFT FROM THE WEEKEND. 
ASK YOUR QUESTIONS NOW!

WORK IN THREE DRAFTS: 1: to figure out what you know and think. 2: to figure out how to say that to other people, with attention to the craft of presentation. 3: REMEMBER TO MEET WITH CLASS PARTNER TO EDIT FINAL VERSIONS BEFORE TUES 22 OCT. 

Tuesday 22 Oct & Thursday 24 Oct

Tuesday of Gathering week, we will meet during class time to share our projects, displaying posters and handouts on the walls of our room, walk and talk one-on-one with each other, share questions, observations, excitements! On that Thursday, we will continue to work with the energy generated by the first day of the con, collectively coming up with reflective analysis and more ideas for what comes next!

·       DUE THURSDAY IN CLASS: LOGBOOK 2, PAPER & HANDOUT IN HARD COPY & ALSO SENT ELECTRONICALLY, DIGITAL PICS IN HARDCOPY AND ALSO SENT ELECTRONICALLY

·       Everything must be in final finished state on Tuesday to display, but you are allowed to revise one more time before turning things in on Thursday

·       Send to katiekin@gmail.com , use filename <yrlastname> 468 <paper1> or <poster1> number pics if more than one. Subject header <yrlastname> 468 con1  

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Tuesday 15 October, Leveling Up

·       McGonigal, Reality, Part II

·       WORK FOR CON #1 SHOULD BE IN FINAL SWING: WORK IN DRAFTS FOR POSTERS AND PAPERS

·       WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH GROW A GAME SO FAR?

Rewards and recognition matter to humans individually and in groups. Where you do find “leveling up” in your own life or in your game lives? How well does this concept and the processes and work it involves help for learning generally? For maximizing social justice? For minimizing harms? How do you know? [carrots & sticks link, p2p link, Wlink, politics?, nudge, neuroethics, Wneuroethics and Wchoice architecture]

feminist conflicts & social critique: Stanford article 

what would a feminist game entail? convo in SL with Ellie & Feminist DOCC ::: 

convo picks up from this video!  ===

"Feminism, Technology, and Race" from FemTechNet on Vimeo.

problematize, criticize, critique, debunk 

=conflicts among feminisms?
=in good faith?
="I don't understand how they can believe…." 
=how could games get all entwined with these? 

oppositional work and consciousness
Necker cube: dominant and alternate cultures
subversive? to what? 

=how can we open up to places where being "right" is not the point actually?

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Thursday 17 October, Whose Game is this anyway?

·       Nardi, Night: Chs 6 & 8; Taylor, Worlds: Ch 4 (electronic reserves) 

·       You have now read bits of the three ethnography books: which one will you read in its entirety for Gaia, our second con?

Nardi, Taylor, and Pearce are pioneers in the ethnography of virtual worlds and gaming lifeworlds, distributed environments that “belong” complexly to many beings, processes, economic infrastructures, and technologies, all of which turn out to be agents and agencies, making things happen and participating in social learning across all of them, not just in human heads. Why does this matter and to whom? What is “belonging” all about? 

Now is the time to decide which of the three books you will read in more depth for the second part of the course, and to look ahead to A Gathering next week!

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WOW Online: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/  

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