8: Mediated identity
Week 8 (October 16)Whereas Week 6 considered the ways in which computer science intersects broader identity categories in producing subject positions, Week 8 considers computation as a medium for literacy and identity practices. We will consider how computation mediates literacy practices at scales ranging from individual cognition to social and cultural processes.
Please read diSessa (2001), ch. 1 and Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, and Cain (1998), ch. 2.