Thursday, October 25, 2007

My Answers to the questions about Agre, p. 201, pp. 211-214

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

2. The skills citizens need is building social capital and participating in the collective production and circulation of political argument.

3. The author use issue entrepreneurship to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue.

4. First step is identifying issues that are coming to prominence. Second step is researching and analyzing them. Third step is staking out public positions on them. Fourth step is building social networks of other citizens who have associated themselves with related issues, especially those whose positions are ideogically compatible.

Two of my own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section.
1,How can we specifically claim to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in our own lives?
2, I could not come up with second question.

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