Context, Community, and the Individual: Modeling Identity in a Game Affinity Space

Barany, Amanda; Foster, Aroutis

doi:10.1080/00220973.2020.1740966

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“…This suggests the importance of Projective Identities in the design of game-like learning environments. This idea is also further explored in Barany's and Foster's [3] presentation on how such identity exploration trajectories are mediated through the designed contexts of the environments presented to the learner.…”

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confidence: 99%

Nurturing positive social values with the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project

Lim¹,

Hilmy²,

Yuen³

et al. 2021

Computers and Education Open

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Nurturing positive social values with the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project

Lim¹,

Hilmy²,

Yuen³

et al. 2021

Computers and Education Open

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“…But Wattpad goes beyond individual reading. The vibrant community fosters connection and shared enjoyment through comments, discussions, and forums, allowing you to engage with others who share your passion (Barany & Foster, 2021). Gamification elements like contests and interactive features add another layer of fun and participation, making the readers an active part of the Wattpad universe (Franco, 2017).…”

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“Wattymania": Wattpad Readers’ Perspective on Wattpad's Role in Their Lives

Grabielle Nidar,

Monteza, PhD

2024

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Wattpad thrives in the Philippines, boasting over 5 million usersThis study explored the implications of reading Wattpad stories among readers at UM Digos College. The study used a phenomenological descriptive research design and Colaizzi’s method of thematic analysis to explore the perceptions of readers regarding the reasons, motivations, and roles of Wattpad in their lives. The study found that there are seven emergent themes: enjoyment and satisfaction, life's inspiration, satisfying curiosity, providing excitement, developing empathy, convenience reading, and life lessons as participants reasons for reading Wattpad stories. It was also reported that the impact of the characters, relatable stories and scenes, emotional appeal, and being influenced by friends and family were reasons for people to engage themselves more in continuing to read Wattpad stories. Furthermore, the study also showed that they perceive Wattpad as a source of providing moral lessons, motivation to write, providing comfort, emotional awareness, being influential to living, grammatical awareness, and stress relieving. The study's findings suggest using Wattpad-like content to enhance learning and guide students towards responsible reading habits. Further, school stakeholders can integrate Wattpad stories as contemporary literary text subject in language courses.

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“…A systematic review found that a majority of empirical studies in education using ENA over the last decade utilized data from online discussions (23.7%), followed by interview transcripts (21.1%), and learners' interactions (17.1%); those based on interview transcripts typically explored epistemic networks in the communities of practice, games and assignment interviews, students' sense-making of feedback and reading strategies (Elmoazen et al, 2022). Fan et al International Journal of STEM Education (2023) 10:22 Our prior work has leveraged quantitative ethnographic techniques to examine identity exploration trajectories among middle school science students (Foster, 2014;Foster et al, 2019) and longitudinally in online engineering gaming communities (Barany & Foster, 2021). This study extends this line of inquiry through a quantitative ethnographic examination of identity exploration using student and alumni interview reflections on their possible future selves as they engaged with Northeast AMP.…”

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Possible future selves in STEM: an epistemic network analysis of identity exploration in minoritized students and alumni

2023

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Background STEM minority participation programs have been widely implemented in higher education with the goal of diversifying the global STEM workforce. Informed by research highlighting the potential of targeted exploration of STEM roles and reflection on the self in relation to STEM (identity exploration), this work examines how engagement in a government funded STEM minority participation program shaped these processes in current students and program alumni. Results Epistemic network analysis (ENA) was used to visualize conceptual connections between identity themes that emerged from interviews with present and past program participants. Network models were developed for current students and alumni for cross-group comparisons. Differences were found in how participants at different stages of their careers enact and describe their identity exploration processes. Summative network models highlighted how students discussed action-taking (sometimes through participation in STEM minority program initiatives) as they explored less-certain possible future STEM roles, while alumni integrated more diverse and holistic facets of their identities when conceptualizing their futures. To close the interpretive loop, a qualitative interpretation of interview discourse was used to give context to network patterns. Conclusions Results highlight the differences between novices’ and professionals’ conceptualizations of their future selves and illustrate how minoritized individuals describe their long-term patterns of identity exploration related to STEM majors and careers. Implications for future STEM identity research and practice, including higher education programming as a tool to support students’ STEM identity exploration processes, are discussed.

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Context, Community, and the Individual: Modeling Identity in a Game Affinity Space

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Nurturing positive social values with the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project

Nurturing positive social values with the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project

“Wattymania": Wattpad Readers’ Perspective on Wattpad's Role in Their Lives

Possible future selves in STEM: an epistemic network analysis of identity exploration in minoritized students and alumni

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