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//With media we have interaction. We are active participants.// One of the most dedicated studies in society at the moment comes out of MIT, USA. Years of research are going into ways youth participate with digital technologies. Students may join in on this pursuit for the audience project.

Ask your teacher for your class handout

 Are you a digital native?  Audience mobile phones

Participant culture can be as varied as people involves in issues of science,health or entertainment and communications. It is a vast terrain. Many qualitative surveys have been done on e-use. Each specialty group is an audience.

http://www.indranet.org/the-digitally-divided-self/#more-344

Audience participant

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//These documents are from a Public Media research folder.( see more below )//

//“Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking. These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom.” //

Forms of participatory culture include: **Affiliations** — memberships, formal and informal, in online communities centered around various forms of media, such as Friendster, Facebook, message boards,

**Expressions** — producing new creative forms, such as digital sampling, skinning and modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction writing, zines, mash-ups).

Listen, for example, to Plan B. http://www.time4planb.co.uk/ **Collaborative Problem-solving** — working together in teams, formal and informal, to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (such as through //Wikipedia//, alternative reality gaming, spoiling).

**Circulations** — Shaping the flow of media (such as podcasting, blogging). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, a changed attitude toward intellectual property, the diversification of cultural expression, the development of skills valued in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship.Access to this participatory culture functions as a new form of the hidden curriculum, shaping which youth will succeed and which will be left behind as they enter school and the workplace.

These are some of the skill sets put to use in public and social media activities. Students may plan to practice an integrate any of these skills with their 3.8 practical project.
 * **Play** – the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
 * **Performance** – the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
 * **Simulation** – the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
 * **Appropriation** – the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
 * **Multitasking** – the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details
 * **Distributed Cognition** – the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
 * **Collective Intelligence** – the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
 * **Judgment** – the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
 * **Transmedia Navigation** – the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
 * **Networking** – the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
 * **Negotiation** – the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms
 * **Visualization** – the ability to interpret and create data representations for the purposes of expressing ideas, finding patterns, and identifying trends

Public media research

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