Group 5 & 6 clarification

1. One minute papers summaries
Points
Various attributes that make up conversation
Restricted domains are important for facilitating comm
Questions
To what extent are gender and cultural expectations blending?
Are one-way communications judged by same criteria as conversations or other forms?
How does Solomon's framework apply to electronic communications?
Are information specialists relatively easy to communicate with?

2. Face-to-face debate plan:
Consider a public meeting of the Library Board of a small affluent community in a suburb of a large American city.  One agenda item is a vote on whether to require web filtering software on all publicly accessible workstations in the library system.  The motion has come about due to parental concerns that children have access to the entire range of Internet topics, including those that are sexually explicit or socially extreme.  You must cast a vote and defend your position.
You will be assigned to a pro (apply the filtering software) or con position and we will have a debate in class.  At least 8 people in each group will have 2 minutes to present a point supporting his/her case. After each point, the opposing group will have one minute to rebut the point.

Here are some quotes to consider:

"The 'people' who exercise power are not always the same people with those over whom it is exercised; and the 'self government' spoken of is not the government of each by himself, but of each by all the rest."   John Stuart Mill, 1859

"And this I believe:  that the free, exploring mind of the individual is the most valuable thing in the wold.  And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual."  John Steinbeck, 1951

"Censorship is the outward and continuing expression of the distortion of the human erotic faculty.  It is the one point at which we can battle from what enslaves us."  Germain Greer, 1971

"Well, this garbage is simply the excessively violent hardcore material the library currently makes freely available to kids…I'm sick of this sexually explicit materials too--but I refuse to sit back silently and let the library continue to pollute our community's children with it."  Letter to the editor, 1997
 

3. Discuss Tannen (Group 3)
4. Discuss Conger (Group 4)

5. Assignment
prepare for debate

6.The one-minute paper
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?