From hanging out to figuring it out: Socializing online as a pathway to computational thinking
| Autor: | Benjamin Mako Hill, Samantha Shorey, Samuel Woolley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Figuring
Sociology and Political Science business.industry Communication Computational thinking 05 social sciences Youth engagement 050301 education 02 engineering and technology Public relations Participatory media Leverage (negotiation) 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Social media Sociology business 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | New Media & Society. 23:2327-2344 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7315 1461-4448 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1461444820923674 |
| Popis: | Although socializing is a powerful driver of youth engagement online, platforms struggle to leverage social engagement to promote learning. We seek to understand this dynamic using a multi-stage analysis of over 14,000 comments on Scratch, an online platform designed to support learning about programming. First, we inductively develop the concept of “participatory debugging”—a practice in which users learn through the process of collaborative technical troubleshooting. Second, we use a content analysis to establish how common the practice is on Scratch. Third, we conduct a qualitative analysis of user activity over time and identify three factors that serve as social antecedents of participatory debugging: (1) sustained community, (2) identifiable problems, and (3) what we call “topic porousness” to describe conversations that are able to span multiple topics. We integrate these findings in a framework that highlights a productive tension between the desire to promote learning and the interest-driven sub-communities that drive user engagement in many new media environments. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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