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Paul Dillon wrote:
>
> Ken
>
> Your description of the Talmudic academies is the antithesis of the
> framework for abductive multilogues that Eva proposes in her article.
> Suspending judgment on what "establishing scholarship" within the
> multilogical space of the mailing list might be, that is without reference
> to the other academic activity systems in which it is embedded (or to which
> it is chained as per Eva's description) i think you are pointing to the
> reality of why some people don't participate. They perceive the mailing
> list environment to be an archaic framework of the kind you describe. Given
> its embeddedness, that perception has some merit.
>
> I wonder if the people who sat closer to the front, in the Talmudic
> academies, ever turned around to look at the people behind them, or if they
> ever decided that a certain topic would be better served by arranging the
> chairs in a circle?
>
> Paul H. Dillon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Goodman <kgoodman who-is-at u.arizona.edu>
> To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 11:36 AM
> Subject: Re: participation structures
>
> >At some time in the past I remember commenting on the Talmudic academies
> >in Jerusalem and Babylon is biblical times. Young scholars joined the
> >group at the back and gradually worked their way forward as they
> >established their scholarship and implicit right to comment. Perhaps by
> >analogy that is what happens in the kind of virtual academy that the
> >internet provides.
> >
> >Ken Goodman
> >