Turkle article and Wenger's article has similar aspects when coming to community.
Online gaming environments are the best community place for socializing.
Online game envrionments links people around the world, people with different culture backgrounds, different aspect of life point of view. A online place is where people gather up for similar interests, collaborate with one another.
For example, I'd like to introduce the game of World of Warcraft (WOW). This is a online game MMORPG style where over 50 million people around the world playes and serviced in 15 languages. People not only stay on the game sever to fight and complete quests to level up, the gaming environment also pushes the users to collaborate and conquer dungeons and others. In this situation people have to talk and work with each other to make the best out of it.
No man is an island, sort of suites this situation. In the game, people have to learn to talk and learn to work together. As a heavy online gamer myself, everytime I log-on, friends (online friends) people I know through game starts to talk with about my life and my interests, not only restricted with gaming issues.
When someone builds up a guild, people tend to get closer, and work better together. Sometimes people get together to meet up in real life, which is more fun sometimes.
However, my point here is that communities help to develop all sorts of aspects. My interest is in language, and language development could be observed in playing online gaming. Bryant article shows that actually playing WOW, develops the language ability for users.
As Wenger notes, learning comes from all around not only from community but from practice, identity and meaning. People gather up in the online game to collaborate and through this development occurs.
However, i know this posting goes blah blah blah for here and there but, too bad, my prior posting went down the gutter with an error of the psu blog!
Online gaming environments are the best community place for socializing.
Online game envrionments links people around the world, people with different culture backgrounds, different aspect of life point of view. A online place is where people gather up for similar interests, collaborate with one another.
For example, I'd like to introduce the game of World of Warcraft (WOW). This is a online game MMORPG style where over 50 million people around the world playes and serviced in 15 languages. People not only stay on the game sever to fight and complete quests to level up, the gaming environment also pushes the users to collaborate and conquer dungeons and others. In this situation people have to talk and work with each other to make the best out of it.
No man is an island, sort of suites this situation. In the game, people have to learn to talk and learn to work together. As a heavy online gamer myself, everytime I log-on, friends (online friends) people I know through game starts to talk with about my life and my interests, not only restricted with gaming issues.
When someone builds up a guild, people tend to get closer, and work better together. Sometimes people get together to meet up in real life, which is more fun sometimes.
However, my point here is that communities help to develop all sorts of aspects. My interest is in language, and language development could be observed in playing online gaming. Bryant article shows that actually playing WOW, develops the language ability for users.
As Wenger notes, learning comes from all around not only from community but from practice, identity and meaning. People gather up in the online game to collaborate and through this development occurs.
However, i know this posting goes blah blah blah for here and there but, too bad, my prior posting went down the gutter with an error of the psu blog!
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