I wonder if one tacit background context for our discussion on silence on
xmca is students' silence in classroom. If so, I think these two contexts
are very different because students in school (or college) very often are
forced to be there. There are several decision making and choices associated
with xmca (and similar email lists) such as: subscribe (unsubscribe), keep
(erase) messages, read (skip), reply publicly (reply privately, talk with a
colleague orally, think of/mediate immediately or later, not reply and not
think). Of course, this is not exhausted list of possible decision making.
Usually students in traditional classrooms have different choices,
relations, and different opportunities for decision making.
What do you think?
Eugene
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