Welcome

A rather belated welcome to NCLC 249 but very sincere, all the same. I've posted below the key concepts you should be able to define and attempt to apply from our first week's readings. It's OK if you're not quite sure of some of the concepts, but make sure you keep a note of them, and we can talk about them in more detail when next we meet.

From the Mark Warschauer reading:
Social capital, including:

• Bonding social capital
• Bridging social capital
• Norm-related social capital
• Macro-level social capital
  

Out-of-group networking
Community Informatics
Social Alliances
Synergy
Citizen Feedback

From the Marie-Laure Ryan reading (sent to those who attended last week's class as a .pdf entitled Levy.pdf):

The two definitions of virtual contrasted in the Marie Laure Ryan extract:

• The virtual-as-fake
• The virtual-as-potential
  

Fictionality
Authenticity
Actualization
Levy’s concept of creativity
Virtualization, including two examples:

• Virtualization of the economy
• Virtualization of the body
  

Let me know if you have any questions, and make notes of anything that seems unclear for our next meeting.