experience project (ep)

Goals

1. What is Experience Project (EP)?

2. Is EP a community?

3. How does EP illustrate Bellah‟s

notions of community and the self?

EP Mission Statement

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community

3. EP in Bellah‟s Community

and Self

EP Mission Take Home

Messages

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

Use of language suggests community

Key words: Experience, Growth, Support, Each Other

Encouragement to use your own judgment

Look at what people are writing

Use your own voice

People are a product of their experiences

Sharing experiences creates understanding

What‟s Not Being Said

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

EP is available on mobile devices

Twitter and Facebook advertise their apps in their

„About‟ pages.


1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self



„About‟ pages.

EP is applicable to multiple areas of life

Business, media, developers

LARGEvisuals and

graphics

Article

discussion

and news

feed

Personaliz

e the way

you „like‟

things


1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self



„About‟ pages.

EP is applicable to multiple areas of life

Business, media, developers

EP is concerned with entertainment (it‟s not)

No obvious emphasis on media sharing capabilities

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

EP Homepage

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

Logging In

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

I have a

message

!

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

Explore Experiences

Experienc

e

Categories

Explore Experiences

Experienc

e

Categories

Specific experience

within the category

Explore Experiences

Experienc

e

Categories

Specific experience

within the categoryAuthor‟s story about

the experience

Explore Experiences

Experienc

e

Categories

Specific experience

within the categoryAuthor‟s story about

the experience

Join

the „I

Love

Coffee

Group‟

Ask Questions

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

Find People and Support

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

Confessions

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

Goals Revisited

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self


2. Is EP a community?



EP members…

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

…have something in common with other members by virtue of joining EP.

… have a means to further establish a sense of common identity.

…choose to interact based on shared interests, concerns, or characteristics both inside or outside their control.

Goals Revisited

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self


2. Is EP a community? – Yes!



EP and Bellah, Community and

Self

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

“Finding oneself means, among

other things, finding the story or

narrative in terms of which one‟s

life makes sense” (p81).

EP and Bellah, Community and

Self

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

“The other area is the lifestyle enclave, the realm, par excellence, of expressive individualism. We are supposed to be able to find a group of sympathetic people, or at least one such person, with whom we can spend our leisure time in an atmosphere of acceptance, happiness and love” (p83).

Conclusion

1. About Experience

Project

2. EP as a

Community


and Self

“We find ourselves not independently

of other people and institutions, but

through them” (p84).

EP is an example of how individuals

discover,define and nurture „self‟ in,

through, and as community.

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