Deeper into immersion
Gee (2005)
Semiotic social space
Affinity space
?
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What makes these spaces special
• Belief and metaxis• Boundary objects and semiotics• Different goals and aims• Transformation of role and status• Suspension of normal conventions, transformation of
time• Participation requires the ability to engage belief• Identity and roleplay• Community and Communitas• Transformation and outcome
Oldenburg and Bissett (1982)
1st place: Home
2nd place: Work
3rd: Social
4th
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Çatalhöyük
• Built 9500 years ago• Oldest buildings known around alluvial clay
deposits• The need to create ritual gave rise to
civilisation not the other way round• So Zeroth places not fourth• And what comes next?
Augmenting reality
• Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary• Augmented Alternate Reality Game• http://vimeo.com/20255956• Example of people inhabiting different places
but in the same space.
I have no idea
Sources
• Gee, J.P. (2005) “Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces: From The Age of Mythology to Today’s Schools” in D. Barton and K. Tusting (eds.) Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp 214 - 232
• Hodder, I. and Cessford, C. (2004) Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük, American Antiquity, 69 (1), 17 – 40
• Oldenburg, R. and Brissett, D. (1982) The Third Place, Qualitative Sociology, Winter 1982, Volume 5, Issue 4, pp 265-284
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