"'In order to identify, in textual terms, how the Internet mediates the representation of knowledge, the framing of entertainment, and the conduct of communication', our understanding of construction and creation needs to be broad enough to allow for change in the future."
- Sonia Livingstone and W. Ian O'Byrne
W. Ian O'Byrne, a digital architect and professor and researcher at the University of New Haven, presents in his article, Construction and/or Creation of Online Content, the creation vs. construction component of learning through online content. Sonia Livingstone, a professor of Social Psychology and former head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, expressed, as listed at the top of my blog post, that it is essential for our understanding of construction and creation to be broad if we want to allow change for our future. With this, I feel O'Byrne introduced a key point when he discussed how the concepts of creation and construction overlap. Moreover, O'Byrne looked into the lexical definitions of both words and identified that, in essence, the terms mean to build and produce something.
With this idea being said, I do not find it far fetched to claim that ORC, also known as online reading comprehension, and OCC, online content construction, are interconnected. There should be no debate over creation vs. construction within these online mediums, simply because both methods practice communication elements in a manner that produces something, or that causes something to exist... That something being an individual's idea. With ORC and OCC intertwining, the individual is able to create opinions and ideas and therefor, construct conclusions about their personal thinkings based upon factual evidence from visual, digital, and multimodal content. When one creates, it is essential for one to later construct. The learner must revisit their creations, revise, and create even more support-based conclusions. The individual, as an online learner and hacker, can practice creation and construction as one giant digital tool through the massive world of the Internet.
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