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“In the 'world of immersion,' authorship is no longer the transmission of experience, but rather the construction of utterly personal experiences.”
Brenda Laurel-
Video game designer and researcher. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", a public speaker and an academic.

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Self-reflection- capacity of humans to exercise introspection and to attempt to learn more about their fundamental nature and essence.
Participative observation- research technique in anthropology and sociology characterized by the effort of an investigator to gain entrance into and social acceptance by a foreign culture or alien group so as better to attain a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of the society.
Symbolic interaction- a micro-level theory that focuses on the relationships among individuals within a society
Auto-ethnography- qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal and personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.
Dichotomous thinking- evaluate one's personal qualities in extreme, black-or-white categories.
Structures and structuring- the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex., construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to.
Interpretation - interpretation is an assignment of meaning to the symbols of a formal language
Sharing thoughts and mental process- sharing ideas or thoughts with others what you are thinking, interchangeably for all the things that individuals can do with their minds.

Luce Irigaray's- Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist.

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Zygmunt Bauman- sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of Poland by a political purge in 1968 engineered by the Communist government of the Polish People's Republic and forced to give up his Polish citizenship to move to Israel
- sociologist who was one of the most influential intellectuals in Europe

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tacit-knowledge- kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it
- difficult to write down, visualize or transfer from one person to another.

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technologies of lived abstraction- "book series includes transdisciplinary works that critically and creatively inquire into processes of emergence in the world today"


Brian Massumi- Canadian philosopher and social theorist. Theory Out of Bounds, Technologies of Lived Abstraction, Immediations, Immediations (continuation) book series

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Participant observation- "a research technique in anthropology and sociology characterized by the effort of an investigator to gain entrance into and social acceptance by a foreign culture or alien group so as better to attain a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of the society"
Social Construction of Reality- "refers to the theory that the way we present ourselves to other people is shaped partly by our interactions with others, as well as by our life experiences"
Symbolic Interactionism- "the view of social behavior that emphasizes linguistic or gestural communication and its subjective understanding, especially the role of language in the formation of the child as a social being."
Action Research- "philosophy and methodology of research generally applied in the social sciences. It seeks transformative change through the simultaneous process of taking action and doing research, which are linked together by critical reflection"

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Conversation- a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged, talk, converse, chat

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Reader-response theory- "that focuses on the reader or audience reaction to a particular text, perhaps more than the text itself"

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Rhizome- "In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally"

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"learning organization” by Peter Senge- "Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create has been deeply influential"

J. M. Coetzee- "a South African–born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature"

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PARADIGM- "Science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitutes legitimate contributions to a field"