Lecture 24: Placemaking Online and Offline

Question 1

The Dream’s Ray Oldenburg

Answer 1

• “Happy gathering places of community”
  
  • “Homes away from home”
  • “Unrelated people relate”

Question 2

“The Great Good Place”

Answer 2

Question 3

Home-based: Meaning system of identities

Answer 3

• A sense of shared “foundation” (history, linguistic practices, custom, info, etc.)
• Emotional attachment, sense of belonging
• Basis for and produced by “pure sociability” (George Simmel) delightful, playful, and enjoyable interactions

Question 4

The “third places”

Answer 4

• Concept that you feel comfortable and you can share you opinion with others outside of the home-base; the core of informal settings of informal public life; “home away from home”; information mentoring is going on. See common characteristics of theory in table below:
• the “core, informal settings of informal public life.”

Question 5

The “third place thesis” Steinkueler & Williams

Answer 5

• Suburbanization
• Automobile-dependency
• Expansion of national chain retail stores
• Online forums and Social network sites
• Personalized delivery of entertainment materials via various home electronics and Wi-Fi installation

Question 6

Social capital building: social capital

Answer 6

• Resources in the forms of connections and experiences built on interactions with others
• Productive: to be acquired, accumulated, spent, and benefitting from
• DIfferent forms of capital: material, cultural, social, and symbolic

Question 7

Social capital building: bridging

Answer 7

social lubricant, broadening horizons

Question 8

Social capital building: bonding

Answer 8

social superglue, emotional support, trust

Question 9

Pierre Bourdieu

Answer 9

• Conversion among various forms
• Nan Lin: “Capital captured through social relations”

Question 10

Democracy

Answer 10

• Social integration with pluralism (equilbrium between centripetal and centrifugal forces)
  
  • 2 competing forces: one pulling people together toward common goal, other pulling people apart
• Social ingredients of civic culture
• Participatory basis for legitimacy

Question 11

Robert Putnam

Answer 11

• “Bowling alone”
• Social capital is the ingredient to civic culture. In “bowling alone” civic culture decreased quite a bit after the 1940’s (great depression and WWII) and also affect how much people were involved in democracy and voted.
• The prime culprit is television. No matter your education level, the more you watch television daily, the less you have to spend in membership with others.
• Social trust declined
• At 1930, every indicator was at peak, then declined
• Legend shows indicators of social capital.

Question 12

Prime Cultprit (Putnam)

Answer 12

• As educational level increased, peoples social capital and group membership (indicators of social capital) went up
• The more time you spend watching TV, the more likely you will be a loner

Question 13

Dr. Shah: Questioning Putnam

Answer 13

• Affordances: Internet connectivity and interactivity

Question 14

MMO Games

Answer 14

• Sony Online Entertainment: server logs of game play
  
  • Effective network size –> (bridging) –> (+) task performance
  • Network closure (ties to another player, bonding) –> (+) turst of another player
• Evidence is still within the game setting.
• But how is it related to the civic engagment outside of the game’s context?

Question 15

Participatory Culture (Henry Jenkins)

Answer 15

• Participatory culture: in contrast to a consumer culture
  
  • Both civic engagement and creative expression
  • Lower barriers
  • Strong support for creation & sharing
  • Informal mentoring
  • Social connections

Question 16

Fandom

Answer 16

• Fans form a close network or -dom
  
  • passion
  • activities
  • belonging and identity (verification and confirmation)
  • subculture

Question 17

Fandom (Jenkins)

Answer 17

• Different way sto relate with media
  
  • “A new, more empowered, more socially connected, more creative image of the consumer.”
• Beyond “consuming” or even “using” cultural creators
  
  • Creating and recreating
  • From images to bodies

Question 18

Fan-translation

Answer 18

• A linchpin or mediating venue in accessing and consuming foreign cultural products
  
  • Sizable groups with interests or fan community
  • Means of reproduction and sharing.
  • Mobilization and coordination of “grassroots’ intellectual capacities
    
    • Voluntary, free labor
    • Peer to peer sharing

Question 19

Participatory media fandom

Answer 19

• An emerging internatinoal force of cultural globalization
• Overcomes the differential costs in the flows of cultural products
• Trespassing boundaries of various kind

Question 20

Alternative modes of thinking

Answer 20