Internet argumentation has two advantages as an educational opportunity: 1) It's written, and thus may be examined again and gain, so if you don't see the logical flaw the first time, you can catch it later, particularly if some other poster points it out. 2) The very best of it is freely available to anyone who can get into a public library. Education should be that way too, dammit, but it's not, or not in practice for many people.
Yes, definitely. It occurs to me, for instance, that when you get to know people on the 'net, or at least their arguing style, you probably start to notice which people make good arguments no matter what the subject and those who make you cheer if you agree with them, but sometimes drive you crazy. I wonder if you really looked at them it would turn out that they weren't ever really being that logical, only when you agreed with them it didn't bother you as much.
Does he think that people are simply staring at the screen when they surf?
It sounds like it! I guess yeah, there's a lot of things you can do on the 'net--there's videos and shopping and pictures. But there's also a lot of words and information. In a way it really shows just how many people are still interested in the kinds of things the media would have you think was too nerdy to attract interest. There's so many obscure things people make web sites on. Once in a while it suddenly strikes me how there was a time when I couldn't just quickly find information on something from my room.
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Date: 2005-09-07 04:41 pm (UTC)Yes, definitely. It occurs to me, for instance, that when you get to know people on the 'net, or at least their arguing style, you probably start to notice which people make good arguments no matter what the subject and those who make you cheer if you agree with them, but sometimes drive you crazy. I wonder if you really looked at them it would turn out that they weren't ever really being that logical, only when you agreed with them it didn't bother you as much.
Does he think that people are simply staring at the screen when they surf?
It sounds like it! I guess yeah, there's a lot of things you can do on the 'net--there's videos and shopping and pictures. But there's also a lot of words and information. In a way it really shows just how many people are still interested in the kinds of things the media would have you think was too nerdy to attract interest. There's so many obscure things people make web sites on. Once in a while it suddenly strikes me how there was a time when I couldn't just quickly find information on something from my room.