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Chapter 7

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Editing 2.0 Exercises: Keeping the conversation going

Module 7.1

Questions

  1. Reflect on your experiences chatting, texting, Facebooking and discussing online. When did these conversations go particularly well and, most importantly, why? What’s common in good, meaningful online conversation?
  2. Are there online spaces and places in which you participate anonymously or pseudonymously? Why? What does this cloak or anonymity provide?

Activities

  1. Visit a particularly contentious discussion board online, like those dedicated to sports or politics. Lurk in the conversation to see what that board’s moderators do when discussion turns nasty. Do they step in? How do they restore civility? How do they turn the discussion back to the issues or questions?
  2. Visit your favorite news site, one that allows moderated discussion as a part of their coverage. Read a news story or two, then read through the comments to the story. What do you learn from this reader “community” that you didn’t learn from the story?

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