Response to "How to be a Great Host"

This reading tells us what we should do to make a new community and manage it well.
Before starting a new community, you should confirm that your community is well-constructed to compete against other similar communities. Is your community easy for visitors to see and understand? If it is not so, it will not gather many visitors.
When you are ready, you should invite people as many as you can. As your coummunity advance, it can go wrong direction. So, you should make some rules to make your community go right way.

The author suggests some more advices other than these.
These are not so fresh or new idea but basic idead.
However, we tend to forget those basic idea.
So, this reading can be good guidline for us to start a new community and manage it effectively.

Framework for developing my IE

1.identify developing issues

My sticky message is "The English education should be started in the all primary schools."
It is necessary to acquire English to enter the international community.
English is a universal language, and 80 percent of the information in the world isin
English. And even in Japan, a person who has English ability has many advantages.


2.Research and analyze issue

Children start to study English in the primary schools in most countries in the world. However, children start to study English in the junior high schools in Japan.
Many experts say "the earlier, the better in learning second language."
This is obvious in terms of the growth of human brain.



3.Stake out a public position-your "sticky message".

My sticky message is "English education should be started in all primary school."
My target group is children and their parents. I want to lead children to think that they want to study English before entering junior high school.
Also, I want to lead parents to think that they want their children to study English.


4.Build social network

My organizational base is my mother and cousin and student.
I will tell them my idea and ask them to spread.


5.IE homepage: Stake out a personal public presence.
I will make blog in which people can look at my idea and join discussion.
I will make a community on mixi in which people can discuss about this issue.

Social Software tour

I will use "MSN Spaces" as a social software for my IE.
I chose MSN Spaces because this is the biggest blog service.
The number of user is fifteen million (1500万)and also more than five hundreds thousands（５０万） of that blog are renewed everyday.

http://spaces.live.com/

My IE

1. What is your sticky message?
The English education should be started in the all primary schools.
We can say "the earlier, the better in learning languages."

2. Who is your strategic social group?
students
parents
teachers
board of education

people who agree with my opinion

3. How will you spread and encourage to take up your message?
I will ask my cousin who is an elementary school student and already interested in learning English to spread my message to her parents and friends and teachers.
I will ask my mother to spread my message to children in her cram school.
I will write about this on my blog and ask others to link my blog.
I will post my opinion on the webpages which are related to education.

The map of my IE

Response to the questions on Agre, p. 201, pp. 211-214

1.What is the central problem for citizens in democracies?

The central problem for citizens in democracies is how to participate meanigfully in a society of hundreds of millions.

2.What skills do citizens need?

They need skills for building social capital and participating in the collective production and circulation of political arguments.

3.What term does the author use to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue?

The author uses "an issue lattice".

4.What steps are the four steps in this process?

First is the vertical dimension. This is that individuals who stake out a given issue on the national level will generally network with those who stake out the same issue on either the global or the regional level.

Second is the geographic dimension. This is that individuals who stake out issues in a given geographic jurisdiction will generally network with their counterparts in other jurisdictions.

Third is the institutional dimension. This is that individuals who stake out a given issue within one institutional context will generally network with those who stake out the same issue in other institutions.

Fourth is the ideological dimension. This is that individuals who stake out ideologically related positions on different issues in similar institutional locations will generally network with one another.

5.How be the operation of issue lattice closely tied to the ICT?

6.Why has the most central skills of politics remained largely unarticulated across centuries?

7.What additions, deletions, or modifications suggest themselves to you in planning and imolementing your IE? Tell about your ideas.

Networking with other entrepreneurs in the issue lattice.

A summary of Kahn and Kellner pp.183-185, pp.190-198

Online communities are an important domain of the global Internet. While main media in the U.S have promoted Bush's militarism, economic and political agenda, many online communities have attempted to develop alternative organs of information and communication by using the Internet to produce modes of democracy. The Internet itself is experiencing changes toward becoming a more participatory and democratic medium. Online communities are used to promote democracy and social justice on local and global scales by using information and communication technologies.

Respond to the questions on Barabasi: The Sixth Link pp.

1. What is the principal of six degrees of separation? What number of social links does any one person need to be connected to global society? p.30

The principal of Six degrees of separation is that it takes 6 persons to connect two randomly selected persons in the society. Our world is small and we are all closely connected.


2. How is the fabric of society today different from pre-internet society?p.31

We can get infomation so much, so easily, so quickly anytime wherever the internet is.


3.How many more links separate any pair of web pages compared to people in society? What can explain the difference?p.34

The Web has a separation of nineteen.
This is because the nodes have many links.


4. So far, what ranges of separation have network scientists discoverd in different kinds of networks? p.34

species in food webs
molcules
scientists
neurons


5. What does reserch suggest about the fundamentals of networks? p.34-35

If there are more links, there will be less nodes.


6. What is your estimate of your personal number of connections to society? What connections are your strongest?

My connections may be related to education.

Issue Entrepreneurship

1.What is your sticky message?
The education of English should be started in all primary school.

2.Who is your strategic social group?
Schools
Teachers
People of the board of education

3.How will you spread and encourage others to take up your message?
I will write about this on my blog and ask others to link my blog.
I will post my opinion on the webpages which are related to education.

My reaction to Barabasi, Six degrees of separation

It is so surprising for me that it takes only 6 persons to get to one selected persons from the other.
I thought it would take so many persons because our society is so big. However, I feel that the result is not completely reliable because the result was made by only 42 letters of the 160 letters. It is not sure to make results from such small numbers of data. In addition, I have a question that the six degrees of separation can be applied to the world really. I think the experiments in the world should be done.
Anyway, I feel that our world is small and we are connected. In addition, I am surprised by the result on webs. I thought the world of Web was too big for us to grasp. However, in fact, I realized it is a small world. These results changed my thought about the size of our society.

A summary of Barabasi, Six Degrees of Separation

"Six degrees of separation" is the concept which was brought by Frigyes Karinthy. This conept was rediscoverd by Stanley Milgram, a Harvard professor. He did an experiment which proved this concept. The experiment was to find out how many acquaintances would it take to connect two randomly selected persons. The result of his experiment was that it took 5.5 persons to get to one selected persons from the other. This shows that our world is small.

Barabasi and other members did similar experiment on webs. The result was that any it took 18.59 documents to get to one selected documents to the other. This shows that the Web is a small world.

My reaction to Barabasi, Introduction

I was surprised at the story of the hijack of Yahoo. It can not be imagined that Yahoo was hijacked by a fifteen-year-old boy, not by a group of sophisticated hackers in spite of Yahoo's security system.
Paul spread Christianity successfully. There are some key factors of his success. Firstly, he had a "sticky message". His "sticky message" was passed down by generations due to the strength of his message. Secondly, he used the social network efficiently. He walked not randomly. He walked in a way Christianity could spread most effectively. He had knowledge of social network.
It seemd to me that the story of MafiaBoy and Paul were not related at first. However, they have something in common; networks. MafiaBoy used the network of computers. Paul used the social network. The author uses examples effectively to describe that networks exists everywhere and everything is linked to everything to else.

A brief summary of Barabasi, Introduction

In 2000, Yahoo was involved in a trouble which was caused by the MafiaBoy, a fifteen years boy. He had hijacked hundreds of computers and halted the operations of billion-dollars companies.

Paul was a early missionary of Christianity. He spread Christianity by reaching out to the biggest communities to germinate the faith most effectively.

Though there are big differences between Mafiaboy and Paul, they have something in common.
The key of their success is the use of network.

Nothing can happen individually. Everything is connected to everything else. Network exists everywhere. We must cast an eye for them.