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New Skills for Participatory Culture
- Play
- the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
- Performance
- the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
- Simulation
- the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
- Appropriation
- the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
- Multitasking
- the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.
- Distributed Cognition
- the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
- Collective Intelligence
- the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
- Judgment
- the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
- Transmedia Navigation
- the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
- Networking
- the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
- Negotiation
- the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.
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