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reality becomes manifest in practice. Key to the
constructivist approach is not an objective reality
but the understanding of our own experiences. The
semantic discourse on meaning should be embed-
ded in human understanding and embrace others'
understanding of the social practices. For example,
a notion of a gift becomes a social construction that
arises out of social practices. A Dutch historian
and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
analyzed the notion of gift as a social construct in
his topic from 1938 “Homo Ludens: A Study of
the Play Element in Culture” (Huizinga, 1950). For
Krippendorff (1990) a notion of a gift becomes
a social construction that arises out of social
practices. Key to the constructivist approach is
not an objective reality but understanding, own
understanding of one's own experiences. Social
practice becomes a dynamic unfolding of the
constructions in the understanding of participating
individuals (Figure 1).
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Figure 1. Anna Ursyn, “Visual Citation” (© 2010, A. Ursyn. Used with permission)
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