[Xmca-l] Re: Not too long and not too short

[Andy Blunden]

I use the concept of a group of people talking together in the same room 
as a germ-cell and unit of analysis for analysing organisations and 
broad social and political processes, so it seemed it might useful to 
think about it here. I'd describe my stance like that of a group of 
students or researchers all studying at their own desk in a hall, and 
every so often someone has a question, and calls it out and people call 
back answers.
I agree with not-broken-don't-fix-it and I agree that rules and rulers 
are not for us. I also find xmca to be way out in front of all 
comparators in terms of intellectual depth and mutual respect. But I 
think if we were all aware of how each of us see participation in xmca 
it would help us to act accordingly. So, for example, if I happened into 
a study hall and witnessed people occasionally calling out and answering 
questions or occasionally sharing discoveries or news, I would try to 
figure out what the shared interest was and I would tend to stick to the 
Q&A&News modes myself.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/


Peg Griffin wrote:
> Other candidates for options:
> a MOOC -- including suggestions about participation in terms of comfort with
> certain pre-req readings (of published articles/books and often some package
> of prior curated XMCA post sequences)
> a tourist stop shared coffee break  -- with noticings, questioning,
> questing, promoting, guessing, opining regardless of ordinary conventions of
> academic discourse 
>
> Someone had never heard of a modeling (maybe mapping) between on line and
> f-t-f events?  One of the earliest I ever saw (in the early 80's I think)
> was a Japanese on-line group TEFL structured with, of course, Japanese
> physical space referencing as well as rhetorical-discourse-genre units,
> sensibilities, and customs.
>
> Maybe thinking about non-on-line would bring XMCA face to face with its
> cultural diversity.
>
> A quirk in the occupy type general meeting is the omission of loudspeakers
> and replacement by people repeating back what was said.  Would an on-line
> mapping of that occur and give folks the responsibility to write the "Re:"
> before responding could be an interesting sporadic innovation replacing the
> long message history tail?  Maybe a once a week or once a month exercise of
> it would be tolerable/fun/instructive? 
> PG 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Blunden
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 8:24 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Not too long and not too short
>
> I would be interested to know what real-space activity people would take
> xmca to be "modelling" in cyberspace?
> Are we participating in
>
>     a kind of scientific symposium or maybe a conference?
>     or an after dinner conversation? (or maybe a staffroom conversation)?
>     a formal decision making meeting, where we address the Chair, make
>     amendments, etc.?
>     a Occupy-type general meeting?
>
> Or is "none of the above" the only answer?
> Andy
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> *Andy Blunden*
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> Annalisa Aguilar wrote:
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>> Apparently we need a Goldilocks section in the Newcomer's page!
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