Nested Communities of Practice #AERA2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 9:38PM
The working paper is available over on academia.edu, so I'm just going to give a few vague explanations of the some of the slides here.
1). This is a screen grab from electric sheep. Basically, a good sheep is probably the best way to think of what a good visualization of nested communities of practice might look like. There are things within things here. There's also an internet meme here somewhere, but I'll leave it to you to ferret it out.
2) This is the slide about how I do guild leadership research. I suppose I should have put an arrow pointing at Vork.
3) Cylons playing poker . . . hmm, even I'll admit that this slide was a stretch for communities of practice, but it was right there . . . on the internets.
4) Ahh Burning Man. These were the first five images that came up when I did a Google Image search for Burning Man. Thanks to the Burners with the cameras. I haven't been out there myself in many many years, but it does nonetheless represent a certain type of physically manifested affinity space. Protests also have this quality.
5) Matrioshka models. Yes, this is the static concept of the things inside of things. Each community inisde of a thing and it has things inside of it as well. However, this is too hierarchical.
6) This slide is a bit of fail, because it is even more static. However, it is a model of a water shed, which begs the question of scale and perspective on time anyway. Here are nested cultural practices modeled slowly over time . . . maybe.
7) Examples: WoW recruiting. Hmm, you can find descriptions of this in a part of my diss I have yet to publish. The long and the short of it is that guild leaders have resources at all different points of interaction with different nested elements. PuGs, Forums, Friends, Rival guilds . . . the list goes on.
8) The Gap, hmm, this slide is mis-titled. Basically, I wanted to talk about my experience reading what the UX community did in response to the Gap's fumbling around with logos. It's just another example of a community which is nested within several larger and many smaller entities (umm . . something about challenges to a hierarchical view of nesting, but also the experience rocked the boat for the community of experts a little).
9) Ahh yes, this image. I need to track down where I first found this image. It's popular in the Google search, and it's a pretty useful graphic. At any rate, for this whole "nested communities of practice in education" thing it's not great, but it's not bad. Some day I'll draw a good graphic for this nested model in education, but that day is not today.
10) And at last we come to #wiunion. This slide represents the trending action around said hashtag, and in the context of this expertise thing, shows how social media creates opportunities for challenges to expert domains. I may elaborate on this last point in a separate blog post. The main point here is to offer one illustration of a hybridized digital analog nested communities of practice model making itself evident.
Reader Comments (1)
Sounds like a wolfenstein in sheep's clothing....