From Jim Gee's What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy
affinity spaces-
social literacy
semiotic domains - any set of practices that recruits one or more modalities to communicate distinctive types of meangins
internal design Grammar - the principles and patterns in terms of which one can recognize what is and what is not acceptable or typical content in a semiotic domain.
external design Grammar - the principles and patterns in terms of which one can recogznie what is and what is not an acceptable or typical social practice and identity in regrad to the affinity g roup associated with a semiotic domain.
lifeworld domain - those occasions when people are operating as "everday" people and not as members of a more specialist or technical semiotic domain.

from Henry Jenkins Lecture

convergence culture: The collaboration of old and new media in complicated ways. Where tons of info flood into numbers of media.
participatory culture: Not the one-way media culture where we just receive the info but where we are able to interact with others through such as blogging, on-line communities, games and so forth. Info can be provided from, such as, not only government policies but also ordinary teenages.

grass roots vs. astroturf

collective intelligence: various groups are able to participate to work through issues, and gradually product the knowledge. That the Wikipedia is constantly refined is one of the examples

participation gapgap: The gap in access to media due to the time limit, blocking, limited acces, limited ablitity to store, and other different type of conditions

machinima: a portmanteau of machine cinema or machine animation, is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre defined by those techniques

from Herman & Chomsky, Manufacturing Consensus:

Hegemony: the dominance of one group over other groups

flak - the negative reesponses to a media statement or program.

ideology: "an instrument of social reproduction" defined by Marx. a set of ideas
neoliberal: supporting political ideas that include strict moral behavior and emphasizing each person's responsibility to work and take care of himself or herself, rather than depending on the government for help

neoconservative:an opponent of Communism, rather liberanism and democratic. they differenciated themselves from conservative since they used to be left wing and liberal.

market populism: the concept that “the free market is more democratic than any democracy

market ideology

normative: describing or establishing a set of rules or standards of behavior

Pedagogy - the art of teaching; the function or work (methodology) of a teacher.
Dialectical - of, pertaining to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
Praxis - practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills. Putting theory into practice.
Humanization - act of becoming human or humane.
Dehumanization - deprivation of human qualities such as individuality, compassion
Axiological - the branch of philosophy dealing with values, as those of ethics, aesthetics, or religion.
Ontological - Of or relating to essence or the nature of being.
Prescription - the imposition of an individual’s choice upon another that transforms the consciousness of the prescribed to correlate with that of the prescriber (oppressor).
Oppression – the dehumanized and dehumanizing totality that affects both the oppressors and the oppressed.
Repression - To put down by force, usually before total control has been lost; quell.
Solidarity - union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples.
Fatalism - the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to.
Dichotomy - division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups.