Lankshear, Colin , and Knobel, Michele (2008) Learning and being as cultural producers in online fan-based remix affinity spaces. In: Guadas, Pep Aparicio, (ed.) Educacio permanent, globalitzacio I moviments socials: produccio de subjectivitat, creacio social i potencia. Crec I Denes Editorial, Spain, pp. 191-213.

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Abstract

This chapter will explore some dimensions of participation by young people within new kinds of structures and settings for collaborative endeavour built around shared interests and causes. These new kinds of structures and settings are what James Gee (2007) calls affinity spaces, of which there are many kinds. The kinds of online affinity spaces we will be concerned with here are ones that support and showcase cultural production on the part of fans of popular cultural icons and artifacts. These are fans who enact their “fandom” by remixing original material through acts of writing fanfiction, creating fan art, and producing multimedia artifacts that combine music, images, text, and other media in varying proportions. We will argue that such activity has some interesting and important implications for understanding relationships between learning, identity and power from an educational perspective.

Item ID:	7348
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	978-84-936246-8-2
Keywords:	information literacy; digital culture; internet literacy; media; education policy; communications
Additional Information:	Original title in Catalan - "L'aprenentatge I l'essència dels productors culturals en els espais d'afinitat de mescles en línia basats en els fans"
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2010 22:22
FoR Codes:	13 EDUCATION > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130306 Educational Technology and Computing @ 48% 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified @ 47% 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2099 Other Language, Literature and Culture > 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified @ 5%
SEO Codes:	93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9399 Other Education and Training > 939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified @ 50% 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9502 Communication > 950202 Languages and Literacy @ 50%
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