金曜日, 10月 20, 2006

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.

1 件のコメント:

Owen James さんのコメント...

Mio, a thoughtful effort here. For questions 3 & 4, I recommend reviewing the last paragraph p. 211, your responses are related, but are not direct answers to the questions. In your answer for question 7, you need to say something about your idea so we can understand what you mean. Thanks Mio.