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16 - Participatory Media Spaces

A Design Perspective on Learning with Media and Technology in the Twenty-First Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

Constance Steinkuehler
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kurt Squire
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sasha Barab
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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The learning sciences distinguish itself as a field within education research by their attention to how insights about the cognitive and sociocultural nature of thinking and learning can be applied to the design of learning environments. As a learning scientist, an artist, and a digital media scholar, I am drawn to questions of how to design spaces for young people so that they can participate successfully in media arts–based production activities. I call these participatory media spaces, an extension of Jenkins, Purushotma, Clinton, Weigel, and Robison’s (2007) framing of digital spaces for artistic production and civic engagement as participatory cultures. The rhetorical shift from participatory cultures to participatory media spaces means changing our focus from documenting what happens in these spaces and how people participate to insights about how to design learning environments with specific learning goals in mind. While prior work has focused on what people learn from their engagement in participatory cultures (Gee, 2007; Ito et al., 2010; Jenkins et al., 2007), I consider design from the perspective of intentional learning. There is no doubt that learning happens as a result of engagement in participatory cultures. Learning happens no matter what we do (Wenger, 1998). However, learning something is an entirely different matter. In this chapter I shift the focus from an understanding of learning in participatory media spaces to how to design participatory media spaces so that young people can engage successfully in artistic production processes.

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Games, Learning, and Society
Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age
, pp. 244 - 268
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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