New literacies in participatory cultures: The assumption of trust

Abstract

New literacies research and theory touts the advantages of participatory cultures where youth collaborate, connect, and share knowledge. However, these practices assume a certain level of trust. With a lens that combines sociological theories of trust and a new literacies theory of participatory culture, this paper draws on two studies of youth literacies practices. The participants represent urban and suburban as well as online and offline contexts. Findings bring to bear the centrality of trust to decisions and choices when participating in these communities, pushing research to consider trust and mistrust more thoroughly when theorizing benefits of participatory cultures.

How Language Matters: Using Ethnographic Writing to Portray and Reflect on Languaging Actions

“…Students also learn to reflect on how their languaging actions are shaped by conventions or norms operating in peer group, sports teams, organizations/clubs, or online contexts (Nepal et al, 2012). For example, adolescents experience higher levels of trust in peers in classrooms based on shared knowledge of norms operating in classrooms than in interacting with peers in online contexts based on less familiar norms (Marsh & Hoff, 2019). This research on the value of adolescents reflecting on their languaging actions as enacting certain relations within particular contexts suggests the need for analysis of how students use ethnographic writing to identify different types of languaging actions to then reflect on how those actions serve to enact certain relations leading to growth in use of those actions, the focus of this study.…”

Art-Based Community in Surabaya as an Alternative Art Learning Media for Student

“…They study and learn thing differently compared with early child and children, as well as the way they learn art. An assumption is conveyed across research disciplines that an interest in engaging, knowing, and collaborating with others are familiar and naturalcomfortable behaviours of youth [2]. Author subject research, art-based community predominantly consist of same (and specific) passion and interest.…”

Del aula a la escuela en línea universal: Dimensiones temáticas en canales de Youtube

“…YouTube emerge como un emblema de la cultura participativa (Marsh & Hoff, 2019), jugando un papel principal en la educación por demanda (o aprendizaje informal) a través de prácticas e interacciones sociales como el comentario, la búsqueda o la provisión de información (Dubovi & Tabak, 2019). En este entorno, surgen los denominados vídeos generados por instructores (D'Aquila, Wang & Mattia, 2019), que fomentan la producción audiovisual en materia pedagógica con el objetivo de involucrar a los estudiantes en las diferentes temáticas de estudio (Kum-Tien, 2019).…”