6: Mediated identity

Whereas Week 5 considered the ways in which computer science intersects broader identity categories in producing subject positions, Week 6 considers computing as a medium for literacy and identity practices. We will consider how computing mediates literacy practices at scales ranging from individual cognition to social and cultural processes.

Readings

diSessa, A. A. (2001). Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy. Mit Press.

Turkle, S. & Papert, S. (1990). Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 16(1), 128–159.