ERIC Number: EJ1429481
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-0004-3125
EISSN: EISSN-2325-5161
Critical Digital (Counter)Placemaking
Luke Arthur Meeken; Oscar Keyes
Art Education, v77 n4 p13-19 2024
With youth spending increasing labor and leisure time in designed environments crafted from digital materials, and with historically predatory entities like Meta/Facebook proposing to circumscribe learning and leisure within sensorially rich "metaverses" of their own design, the authors feel it is important for students to be able to critically address the norms and assumptions built into the contours of endemic digital places. This article extends from the authors' development and teaching of a summer camp program over several summers from 2019 to 2022, which was focused on crafting digital places with middle school students. In this article, the authors suggest prompts for learners to examine what kinds of bodily habits are encouraged by popular digital places, such as video games, and to what extent those habits perpetuate colonizing and violent actions and sentiments toward place. This article also explores examples of counterplacemaking by Indigenous artists who experiment with crafting places that encourage different habits toward place.
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreational Activities, Video Games, Social Media, Videoconferencing, Learning Management Systems, Summer Programs, Middle School Students, Digital Literacy, Decolonization, Culturally Relevant Education, Ideology, Indigenous Knowledge
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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