Los juegos de realidad alternativa, “Alternate Reality Games” (ARG), son considerados una narrati... more Los juegos de realidad alternativa, “Alternate Reality Games” (ARG), son considerados una narrativa transmedia y han sido explorados en ambientes educativos dadas sus características lúdicas, narrativas, participativas e interactivas. Sin embargo, comúnmente han sido creados con historias fijas que han despertado poco interés en los alumnos. Esta investigación exploratoria consistió en solicitar a grupos de alumnos diseñar su propio ARG. Para promover la reflexión sobre cambio social su propuesta debía estar relacionada con ciudadanía, política, justicia o cualquier otra situación social o cultural de su interés. Los estudiantes investigaron y discutieron sobre estos temas para finalmente presentar una serie de propuestas que fueron analizadas basándose en narrativa, elementos de juego y discurso. Se encontraron varias ideas creativas para promover la disposición a la participación ciudadana. Con el fin de facilitar el uso y creación de estos juegos estamos desarrollando una aplicación cuyas características son descritas en el artículo.
Representation of autism in mass media has retained stereotypes that paraphrase medical discourse... more Representation of autism in mass media has retained stereotypes that paraphrase medical discourse over time. This paper aims to investigate about the existence of alternate representations in affinity spaces like fanfiction.net. For this purpose, we conducted a mixed composite study of a quantitative analysis of 197 fanfictions found in the platform in November 2016 under the tag autism, in which reading popularity indicators such as subscribers, bookmarks and number of comments were measured. We then conducted a qualitative analysis of the most relevant text according to popularity and content. This analysis focused on the fanfiction Different, Not Defective, from the Harry Potter fandom, and the analysis of the 863 comments. Results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces where therapists, family members and individuals within the autistic spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a great potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, which could extend to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is that it provides a methodology for studying other fandom or other disabilities. We suggest continuing to explore how fan fiction on the internet can contribute to the creation of emerging meanings about groups that are inadequately represented.
Los juegos de realidad alternativa, “Alternate Reality Games” (ARG), son considerados una narrati... more Los juegos de realidad alternativa, “Alternate Reality Games” (ARG), son considerados una narrativa transmedia y han sido explorados en ambientes educativos dadas sus características lúdicas, narrativas, participativas e interactivas. Sin embargo, comúnmente han sido creados con historias fijas que han despertado poco interés en los alumnos. Esta investigación exploratoria consistió en solicitar a grupos de alumnos diseñar su propio ARG. Para promover la reflexión sobre cambio social su propuesta debía estar relacionada con ciudadanía, política, justicia o cualquier otra situación social o cultural de su interés. Los estudiantes investigaron y discutieron sobre estos temas para finalmente presentar una serie de propuestas que fueron analizadas basándose en narrativa, elementos de juego y discurso. Se encontraron varias ideas creativas para promover la disposición a la participación ciudadana. Con el fin de facilitar el uso y creación de estos juegos estamos desarrollando una aplicación cuyas características son descritas en el artículo.
Representation of autism in mass media has retained stereotypes that paraphrase medical discourse... more Representation of autism in mass media has retained stereotypes that paraphrase medical discourse over time. This paper aims to investigate about the existence of alternate representations in affinity spaces like fanfiction.net. For this purpose, we conducted a mixed composite study of a quantitative analysis of 197 fanfictions found in the platform in November 2016 under the tag autism, in which reading popularity indicators such as subscribers, bookmarks and number of comments were measured. We then conducted a qualitative analysis of the most relevant text according to popularity and content. This analysis focused on the fanfiction Different, Not Defective, from the Harry Potter fandom, and the analysis of the 863 comments. Results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces where therapists, family members and individuals within the autistic spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a great potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, which could extend to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is that it provides a methodology for studying other fandom or other disabilities. We suggest continuing to explore how fan fiction on the internet can contribute to the creation of emerging meanings about groups that are inadequately represented.
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Results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces
where therapists, family members and individuals within the autistic spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a great potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, which could extend to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is that it provides a methodology for studying other fandom or other disabilities. We suggest continuing to explore how fan fiction on the internet can contribute to the creation of emerging meanings about groups that are inadequately represented.
Results show that digital platforms can function as inclusive spaces
where therapists, family members and individuals within the autistic spectrum incorporate alternative forms of representation. The conclusions indicate that these spaces have a great potential to negotiate the meaning of autism, which could extend to other disabilities. One of the contributions of this study is that it provides a methodology for studying other fandom or other disabilities. We suggest continuing to explore how fan fiction on the internet can contribute to the creation of emerging meanings about groups that are inadequately represented.