Their formulation “letting-know by analogy and knowing-how by analogy”, parses an important difference in meme-transfer between the inception of a new imaginary and the conveyance of pedagogical strategies that accomplish its realization.
C…Since the early 2010s, the increasing use of figurative language has spread to terms associated with digital technology, including: “big data,” “virus,” “platform,” “cloud computing,” “the new black gold” and “ecosystem.” As an extension of…
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Goujon's distinction between "letting-know by analogy" and "knowing-how by analogy" provides a conceptual framework for understanding how new imaginaries (like AI systems) propagate differently from the technical strategies required to instantiate them. The readings use this formulation to parse the gap between rhetorical adoption of concepts in digital culture and the actual pedagogical or operational knowledge needed to implement them, suggesting that much contemporary discourse around AI operates in the former mode without securing the latter.
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