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Learning from Muggles

Wed Mar 28 11:11:00 2007

Danah Boyd is talking about learning from muggles. If we consider the technologists to be the wizards, that makes the normal user a muggle. There's a real danger in designing for ourselves. Danah describes four stages people go through in their lives: Identity formation and role-seeking - young people are trying to make sense of the societal roles around them. We are defined, in large part, by the people around us. Friendship and interaction become important. Integration and coupling - This period is trying to find meaningful labor and determine how they can contribute. A lot of twenty-somethings are
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