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Johnson, Nicola F. – E-Learning, 2009
This article highlights the practice of a group of New Zealand teenagers who are considered by their family and themselves to be technological experts. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's key concepts of habitus, field and capital, this text identifies and discusses the cyber-relations that constitute the practice in the field of home computer use for…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Expertise, Use Studies
Sawchuk, Peter H. – 2001
A study explored informal learning in relation to online communications and working class people's use of computers as a socially situated practice rooted in collective, communal relationships. It drew on analysis of online learning workshop participation in specially initiated sessions among Canadian labor activist/educators. Findings were based…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction