Community in the Digital Age: Final Reading

Readings: Agre, p. 201, pp. 211-214. Please respond to these questions on your blog:

1. What is the central problem for citizens in democracies?

The central problem for the citizen is how to participate meaningfully in a society of hundreds of millions.

2. What skills do citizens need?

The skills that citizens need is the social skill

3. What term does the author use to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue?

He describes the process that citizens use to promote their concerns about an isuue by using the term ISSUE LATTICE.

4. What steps are the four steps in this process?

vertical dimension
geographic dimension
institutional dimension
ideological dimension


p. 212-214
Write two of your own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section. Lead a class discussion next session.

the meaning of social skill, what are the example of the social skill?
what technology are used to communicate hundreds of thousand of people?