Thursday, January 29, 2009

Third Space

This blog acts as a 3rd place because it is a place where people can form a community to exchange ideas(conversation is the main activity!!). Most people feel comfortable blogging too, because it takes the person-to-person encounter out of the equation so people with social hang-ups and shy people can really let their ideas flow and share and open up to a community. The blogging website is very easy to access to most people in this class too, because Madison has areas on campus that have Wi-Fi, and publicly assessable computers...therefore people can log on to blogger.com and blog when they feel like it, and they don't have to have a set schedule to blog. In addition to all of this, the internet blogging service serves as a neutral ground where no 1 person has to serve as a host, and people can blog 100 times, or 0 times. It is open, it is accommodating, it is playful.....it is a true 3rd place.
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2 comments:

  1. wwmayberry3February 3, 2009 at 7:34 AM

    I like your idea about how this blog accommodates people who are shy as it gives them a chance to express themselves in a comfortable environment. I also agree with your other reasons for it being a third space. The only reason I am a little skeptical about is that our blog is accessible. I completely agree that it is easily accessible for people in our class, but I am not sure it can be called accessible since it is only open to people in our class.

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  2. Emily CrainFebruary 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM

    I would have to agree with wwmayberry3. A blog in general is an awesome third space because it can be so easy to access, but only open blogs are that way. Our blog is only available to people in our class, which makes it a third space for us, but maybe not for other people.

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