2007年11月15日木曜日

Agre: Questions and Answers

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

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

2. What skills do citizens need?

Citizens should have the skills of building social capital and participating in the collective production and circulation of political arguments.

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

The author uses “issue entrepreneurship” to describe the process of citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue.

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

The first step of issue entrepreneurship is identifying issues that are coming to prominence. The second step is researching and analyzing those issues. Then next step is staking out public positions on them. The final step is building social networks of other citizens who have associated themselves with related issues.

5. What is the “civil society”? Why is it important? Is there any weakness?

6. What are the four dimensions of lattice structure? What is the futures of lattice structure?

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