Deeper into immersion

Gee (2005)

Semiotic social space

Affinity space

?

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What makes these spaces special

• Belief and metaxis• Boundary objects and semiotics• Different goals and aims• Transformation of role and status• Suspension of normal conventions, transformation of

time• Participation requires the ability to engage belief• Identity and roleplay• Community and Communitas• Transformation and outcome

Oldenburg and Bissett (1982)

1st place: Home

2nd place: Work

3rd: Social

4th

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Çatalhöyük

• Built 9500 years ago• Oldest buildings known around alluvial clay

deposits• The need to create ritual gave rise to

civilisation not the other way round• So Zeroth places not fourth• And what comes next?

Augmenting reality

• Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary• Augmented Alternate Reality Game• http://vimeo.com/20255956• Example of people inhabiting different places

but in the same space.

I have no idea

Sources

• Gee, J.P. (2005) “Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces: From The Age of Mythology to Today’s Schools” in D. Barton and K. Tusting (eds.) Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp 214 - 232

• Hodder, I. and Cessford, C. (2004) Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük, American Antiquity, 69 (1), 17 – 40

• Oldenburg, R. and Brissett, D. (1982) The Third Place, Qualitative Sociology, Winter 1982, Volume 5, Issue 4, pp 265-284

• Mark Childs• mark@markchilds.org• Twitter @markchilds• SL/OS Gann McGann