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Step 1: You will have about 15 minutes to figure out your answer to this question. Since we all have different learning styles, use the approach that will get the best results for you. So, if you learn better by writing, open up a Word doc & write an answer to this question; if you learn better by drawing, help yourself to the paper, crayons, and markers & draw an answer to this question; if you learn better by moving about in the world, try researching your answer on the web; if you learn better by talking, find someone to talk to about this question.
Step 2: I'm going to put you into large groups to work out an answer to this question that somehow combines each of your answers. As a group, come up with a single definition of digital culture that everyone in the group can be happy with. No definition is perfect, so once you have your single definition, figure out what things that definition does not account for and what things it excludes or marginalizes. In other words, find the imperfections in your own definition.
Step 3: As a class, we're going to TRY to explain what we (can) mean by the phrase "Digital Culture." If this seems like a good way to explore this topic, we'll revisit our explanation and revise it throughout the semester. In fact, we may collaboratively compose this explanation using googledocs & once we're all somewhat satisfied with it, publish that collaborative piece to the web.
These course materials
are licensed by Lori Ostergaard under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.