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June 1, 2006
Where are they teaching civic engagement?
Posted by Marnie Webb
IWhew! Nothing like a little conference planning to keep you from posting to a blog. Now that I have some spare cycles in my brain and day, I've started digging around a little to find college and university programs that focus on civic engagement. I'll be putting together a more complete list but, in the meantime, the the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington looks promising and might be worth digging around in some more.
What's interesting to me isn't so much the program as the tone -- and the connection to traditional forms of media. Frankly, it seems a little distant to me. Distant from the real voice of engagement. What do others think?
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1. David Locke on June 2, 2006 7:46 PM writes...
I've been posting to newslists and forums going back before 1995. I've established long-term relationships with people I've never met. And, I've met some of the people that I met online. I've become business partners with a person I met on social software. I've gone to the parties and funerals of these social software people.
Every media has constraints. You design around those constraints, so you can still reach and connect. Social software just gives us another means of connecting.
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