ABSTRACT

IT'S GOOD TO ARGUE AND BAD TO FIGHT

Dr. Leon Watts Department of Computation, UMIST

When people talk as individuals, they need only consider their own personal interests and those of the people to whom they are talking. However, people often end up fighting corners on behalf of the groups to which they belong. It may be that mediating technologies can be designed to selectively reveal aspects of identity that encourage productive discussion and inhibit entrenched diatribe. This proposition will be considered in the context of a case study of mediated communication among Indonesian NGOs.

(the work to be reported in the seminar was carried out with Yanuar Nugroho)


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