Eva writes in reponse to Phillip>>>
"Nevertheless, it is very much a part of human psychology to READ it as
consensus and as "the will of the List". I guess that we are by evolution
prone to transfer our modes of perception from activities in a
same-place&same-time context. The "we" includes myself: to me as
participant my research findings are counter-intuitive."
List dynamics are joyful and problematic as we all experience. Other
systems are also multifaceted. There are voting systems built into many
groupware products (and rarely used)
Whitworth and McQueen describe a social process of using such voting
systems to "vote before discussing", thus eliminating the need to have any
discussion at all on many issues.
They report: "The method derives from a three-process integrative theory
of group interaction, where group cohesion arises primarily from normative
influence rather than task information exchange". When the paper was
presented, we were informed there was not much point in "yarning" about
things we all agree about when we could be getting on with our lives on
the beach. (the conference was in Maui).
Phillip, you may care to observe these socio-cultural perspectives were
presented by New Zelanders.
Eva, I agree we need more Russian irony ...hard to achieve on lists ;-)
Hwyl fawr
Martin
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