Eternal September

Terms: Culture

enculturation

absorption of one’s own culture from immersion (e.g., children);

socialization

deliberate transmission of culture

acculturation (Berry 2007)

change resulting from meeting of two different cultures

assimilation

associated with adoption of larger culture by a minority (extreme acculturation)

ex. Exemplify in a story??

• enculturation
• socialization
• acculturation
• assimilation

Terms: Capital (Bourdieu 1986)

economic

one’s financial assets, perhaps accumulated from one’s labor.

cultural

one’s holding of cultural values, habits, and tastes

social

value of one’s social network and is dependent upon one’s embeddedness in a group

symbolic

related to the honor and recognition of the individual

symbolic↔︎economic↔︎culture↔︎social

ex. Exemplify in a story??

• economic capital
• cultural capital
• social capital
• symbolic capital

Nerd!

+ hacker

Top 5 songs: track 1, side 1

Why so many synonyms?

• newbie (newb, noob, n00b, noobie, n00bie), loser/luser, BIFF (Usenet), gnubie (Free Software movement), weenie (bulletin board systems), chainik (Russian hackers), and muggle (Harry Potter fandom).
• oldbies, alpha geek, gray-beard, wizard, god, guru

What are…

• 101
• FAQ
• RTFM

“Dumb questions”

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.” – Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World.

Do you agree?

How to balance noob self-reliance and wizard friendliness?

ex. Find a “FAQ slap” and consequent debate online and share (5m)

. . .

Defense

How to tell a troll from a newbie?

• concern trolls (sea lioning)
• derailing

“Epistemic exploitation”

In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes. (Lorde 1980/2007)

Epistemic exploitation occurs when privileged persons compel marginalized persons to produce an education or explanation about the nature of the oppression they face. (Berenstain 2016, sec. 2)

Bias

The exhortation to “read the fucking manual” is gendered: men are able “to tell someone to RTFM without ever being accused of PMS” (Feminism 2013).

• impostor syndrome
• Unicorn Law
• mansplaining

Improve your F’ing M

But writing documentation and outreach are often a low-status and gendered task.

Would you be upset if I…

LMGTFY or LMGPT

QICs Go Around

Wrap up

• Create two high-order questions.

• differentiate enculturation and socialization
• describe a capital flow from symbolic↔︎economic↔︎culture↔︎social

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