Q2:
- Relevance: Real
people, real human touches, real issues, real impacts:
- Ample of opportunities
for socializing: Bloggang, private messages, socializing in dialogs,
meeting face2face, social activities
- Identity: both
individual, sub-group, and communal identities (all these identities may
need time for development)
- Connection: with
the national socio-political, cultural movements
- Engagement: Voices
heard, assessed, valued
- Authorship: own
voices developed through interactions; meaning making; constructing new
knowledge
- Enriching experience:
Knowledgeable members from diverse walks of life; knowledge construction via
interaction with more knowledgeable others (Constructivism)
- Multiple perspectives:
diverse views | diverse sources | different styles |
- Technological features:
hyperlinks | archival capability | multimedia | file sharing and freely
available resources : bookmarking |
- Creativity:
Expressing ideas in creative ways; efforts to beat censorship, e.g. via
humor, sarcasm, poetry, graphics and multimedia to enhance communication
- Rights to
participation: voting; reporting abuses; using community's special
feature (favorites/ bookmarking/ blogs/ etc.)
- Freedom of choice:
when, how much, and how to participate
- Anonymity: if
desired
- Accountability: You
are responsible for your own words, and the community may be held
responsible for them, too.
- Monitoring devices:
Peers with abilities to challenge any wrong assumption, unsubstantiated
claims, or uncivilized postings; censorship (automatic; member voting for
deletion; and Webmaster's manual power
- Conditional democracy:
There is no real democracy when the country is not fully democratic.
- Challenging the status
quo: political system; beliefs; media (critical media analysis).
- Negotiation: My
opinions count!?????
Last updated
02/17/2008 by S. Thinsan