Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f7O05Of23738; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:05:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:05:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20010823.200123.9294.1.GDEMETRION@juno.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "GEORGE E. DEMETRION" <gdemetrion@juno.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:574] Re: Habermas & Internet X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 Status: O Content-Length: 2075 Lines: 58 On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:22:00 -0400 (EDT) hforster <hforster@strato.net> writes: >George > >Thank you very much for this lead. One of the reasons I have >followed you in the various lists is because of my interest in understanding >community building and communicative action in the internet. This is a very >interesting subject and one I hope there will be follow-up to. If you plan >to discuss this elsewhere please let me know. > >I am not now in my office where my notes and materials are, but I >look forward to this subject, > >Thanks again >Harry Forster > Harry: Thanks very much for the comments. I didn't have anything particular in mind here except to pass on an interesting note. Perhaps you might share some of your observations about your interests in this issue. My take is that the potential is quite phenomenal, though usually underdeveloped. My own use of this format is simply another avenue to writing to complement academic journal essays, local, program-wide writing, and personal journaling. Though, in addition, what I do like about this medium in particular, is its immediacy and its capacity to raise and explore a wide range of critical, sometimes even, disturbingly provocative issues within a very visible public sector. The recent flurry on NALS on this list, the NLA and others, is an example. I do believe that provocation, in the best sense of the word, is a viable and valuable dimension of listserv communication. I also believe that perhaps a quieter building of community is also a quite legitimate use of such airwaves. I don't see these as mutually exclusive. With you, I am quite interested in the NIFL lists in particular as a discourse system where the politics and pedagogy of adult literacy converge through the multitudinous voices of practitioners all across the land of literacy. It would be eminently cool if someone sorted all this out and wrote a book on this. Just a bit of meandering on a slow, muggy August eve, just minutes before my date to watch Biography on A&E. Whose next? George Demetrion
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