“There’s no fixed course”: Rhizomatic learning communities in adolescent videogaming
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The following paper examines how adolescent gamers’ experiences reveal the complex learning systems in which they contribute, create, and participate, troubling the idea of what “gamer” means altogether. We begin by situating ourselves in a complexity science framework, then move to the ways in which Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) rhizome metaphor supplements our thinking about complex systems, providing a more comprehensive stance from which to understand gaming and learning communities. Drawing from the first four years of our qualitative research, we then provide examples that there is “no fixed course” in gaming, and that our participants actively blur the boundaries of the following traditional identity categories: producer/consumer, teacher/learner, and individual/collective.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it