Educ. CMC & Sensitive topics
I have a graduate student from the school of education who is interested in using online forums to facilitate discussions of white privilege. Any pointers to literature that deals specifically with educational use of CMC for the discussion of sensitive topics such as this? Thanks, Mary ************************ Mary E. Virnoche, Ph.D. Phone: 707-826-4569 Assistant Professor FAX: 707-826-4418 Coordinator, Practicing Sociology MA Program Department of Sociology Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 http://www.humboldt.edu/~mv23 http://www.humboldt.edu/~soc
Mary Not really. There is much in general on the impact of CMC on interpersonal communication, less on your specific issue. Check out the index for the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, edited at the Annenberg School. Good luck, Bill On 2 Sep 2004, at 08:38, Mary Virnoche wrote:
I have a graduate student from the school of education who is interested in using online forums to facilitate discussions of white privilege. Any pointers to literature that deals specifically with educational use of CMC for the discussion of sensitive topics such as this?
Thanks, Mary
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Department of Sociology Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521
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Mary, not directly related to the discussion of sensitive topics but to the question of using CMC for distance learning and how weak strong ties is related to students' use for discussion see Haythornthwaite, Caroline. 2002. Strong, Weak and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media. The Information Society, 18, 385-401. Gustavo S. Mesch, Chair Department of Sociology and Anthropology Senior Research Associate The Minerva Center of Youth Studies University of Haifa http://soc.haifa.ac.il/~gustavo http://hevra.haifa.ac.il/minerva/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Virnoche" <mv23@humboldt.edu> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: [Air-l] Educ. CMC & Sensitive topics
I have a graduate student from the school of education who is interested in using online forums to facilitate discussions of white privilege. Any pointers to literature that deals specifically with educational use of CMC for the discussion of sensitive topics such as this?
Thanks, Mary
************************ Mary E. Virnoche, Ph.D. Phone: 707-826-4569 Assistant Professor FAX: 707-826-4418 Coordinator, Practicing Sociology MA Program
Department of Sociology Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521
http://www.humboldt.edu/~mv23 http://www.humboldt.edu/~soc _______________________________________________ Air-l-aoir.org mailing list Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Since you mentioned my name :-) ... I will draw your attention to another paper that is actually about sensitive topics, although not specifically about CMC. The paper was about how a group discussing sensitive topics came to generate knowledge about how to discuss sensitive issues. The title is more KM oriented, but the main case was about sensitive issues. Another paper on the topic that you should find usefule is the one below by Linda Flowers -- education, but again, not CMC. /Caroline Haythornthwaite, C., Lunsford, K.J., Kazmer, M.M., Robins, J. & Nazarova, M. (2003). The generative dance in pursuit of generative knowledge. Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. Flowers, L. (2003). Talking across difference: Intercultural rhetoric and the search for situated knowledge. College Composition and Communication, 55(1), 38-68. ------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gustavo S. Mesch" <gustavo@soc.haifa.ac.il> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 5:11 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Educ. CMC & Sensitive topics
Mary, not directly related to the discussion of sensitive topics but to the question of using CMC for distance learning and how weak strong ties is related to students' use for discussion see Haythornthwaite, Caroline. 2002. Strong, Weak and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media. The Information Society, 18, 385-401. Gustavo S. Mesch, Chair Department of Sociology and Anthropology Senior Research Associate The Minerva Center of Youth Studies University of Haifa http://soc.haifa.ac.il/~gustavo http://hevra.haifa.ac.il/minerva/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: [Air-l] Educ. CMC & Sensitive topics
I have a graduate student from the school of education who is interested in using online forums to facilitate discussions of white privilege.
Any
pointers to literature that deals specifically with educational use of CMC for the discussion of sensitive topics such as this?
Thanks, Mary
************************ Mary E. Virnoche, Ph.D. Phone: 707-826-4569 Assistant Professor FAX: 707-826-4418 Coordinator, Practicing Sociology MA Program
Department of Sociology Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521
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Rather than phrase/frame it as a sensitive personal issue - the way I do it in my classes is look for how these issues emerge based on course content and reading and assignments- partly to develop pedagogies appropriate for working in both digitally mediated cultures and in a world that is diverse where the "diversity" is something even a white boy in remote Ohio will have to deal with in current global/local work places - I have HSRB permission to observe and use student work in such courses. Based on such continuing projects both in classes taught and designed by me as well as on connecting up with our local High school - I work with advisees who look at issues of white privilege in relation to CMC as part of a larger project dealing with the performativity and production of race. I can provide further details off-list if you like. radhika At 12:38 AM 9/2/2004 -0700, you wrote:
I have a graduate student from the school of education who is interested in using online forums to facilitate discussions of white privilege. Any pointers to literature that deals specifically with educational use of CMC for the discussion of sensitive topics such as this?
Thanks, Mary
************************ Mary E. Virnoche, Ph.D. Phone: 707-826-4569 Assistant Professor FAX: 707-826-4418 Coordinator, Practicing Sociology MA Program
Department of Sociology Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521
http://www.humboldt.edu/~mv23 http://www.humboldt.edu/~soc _______________________________________________ Air-l-aoir.org mailing list Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Caroline Haythornthwaite -
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Mary Virnoche -
Radhika Gajjala -
William Dutton