During the first ten minutes of class (or before, as the case may be), write a summary memo of your reading of Jones and Haffner, Understanding Digital Literacies, Chapter 8. Then, copy-and-paste your summary into a comment made to this blog post. We will discuss the chapter before turning our attention to the current project, which we will devote the remainder of class to.
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To: Jason W. Ellis
From: George Gordon
Date: April 5th, 2016
Subject: Chapter 8 Summary
This chapter begins discussing online cultures and how the word culture has the problem of associating the practices of that culture as universally shared when they usually are not. We can see culture as systems that people may partake in. This can be used to discuss online cultures, where people can get together in online affinity spaces, and the book breaks down them down into how people think (ideologies), how people get along with each other (face systems), how people communicate (forms of discourse), and how people learn to participate (socialization).
The medium we use to connect with others is affected by the way it is viewed by people and how it is normally used. Texts and email are very different formats of communicating as emails can be seen as more academic and formal while texts can be informal and loose. People of different ages and different backgrounds can also get together online, even if it would normally be seen as odd in real life.
To: Professor Ellis
From: Christopher Navarrete
Date: April 5, 2016
Subject: Chapter 8 Summary
This chapter examines how social networking sites, massively multiple online games, and others are used by describing them in terms of culture and intercultural communication. In this case, culture refers not only to the practices of a regional group, but other kinds of groups that have shared affinities and interest, such as gender groups and generational groups. Using culture this way allows us to describe the way people participate in a much greater variety of social practices.
Online cultures are similar to discourse systems in that they both can be broken down to describe a group more in depth. Discourse systems can be split into four interrelated and interdependent components, including ideology (what people think), face systems (how people get along with one another), forms of discourse (how people communicate), and socialization (how people learn to participate).
To: Jason W. Ellis
From: Rownak Choudhury
Date: April 5th, 2016
Subject: Chapter 8 Summary
Chapter 8 of Understanding Digital Literacies deals with understanding culture as it is related to online communities. There is the subject of “ghetto”-ing the online world because people are constantly seeking others with their own biases and similar interests instead of using the vast world of online communications to expand themselves.
Also, there is the topic of social norms as they are being developed on the Net. These social norms range from poking on Facebook, to sending direct messages and tagging. All of these are things which I use to keep in touch with social groups online as well. I never took into consideration how greatly that is affecting my relationships with another individual.
These online cultures are being looked at not only from a geographic cultural point of view, but from the standpoint of gender and other online social group factors as well. Different languages are accommodated and ideas can come together in a synergy to help us create a better world where we are more connected to different cultures (and therefore each other).
To: Professor Ellis
From: Ashley Dunlap
Date: April 5, 2016
Subject: Chapter 8 Summary
This chapter explores the ideas surrounding culture in new media. Online cultures are a critical point in discourse communities and affinity spaces in which users with similar interests and ideologies can connect regardless of language disconnect. With the shareability of online communities messages can be spread or perceived in ways that are not related. Each culture will have its own definition of what’s “socially acceptable”.