Comments on: Spirograph togetherness http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/02/28/spirograph-togetherness/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Thu, 23 May 2013 06:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: sbayne http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/02/28/spirograph-togetherness/#comment-424 sbayne Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:47:01 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/?p=234#comment-424 Interesting analogy! I wonder whether it doesn't convey too singular a notion of individual identity though - as though the person remains the same across multiple communities. Wouldn't identity theory suggest we make ourselves - and are made - differently according to the social space in which we are engaged? So less a single, unbroken thread than a jumble of discontinuous lines that make up something that looks like a person: http://www.weirdspace.dk/RogerHargreaves/Graphics/MrMessy.gif : ) Interesting analogy! I wonder whether it doesn’t convey too singular a notion of individual identity though – as though the person remains the same across multiple communities. Wouldn’t identity theory suggest we make ourselves – and are made – differently according to the social space in which we are engaged? So less a single, unbroken thread than a jumble of discontinuous lines that make up something that looks like a person:

http://www.weirdspace.dk/RogerHargreaves/Graphics/MrMessy.gif

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