>So, for me it is a cultural capital in which I don't as an "individual"
>need to have considerable assets as in time, resources, or self assurance
presupposes the cultural capital you do have -- your longstanding investment
in CHAT/ theoretical fluency/ comfort occupying the virtual floor, etc.
The thread on silent participation has importantly explicated the various
discussion-list conditions that affect some more than other xmca-ers'
participation, which is important not only because the picture is much more
complicated than it might seem to someone shy to push that send button but
also because it reminds us, shy and not-shy, of our responsibilities as more
or less active participants -- but especially reminds, I hope, the not-so-shy.
Judy
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