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.