Social Media and Atheism …. an Atheist Talk Conversation with Mike Haubrich, Stephanie Zvan and Greg Laden.
We talk about trolls too.
The rug really ties the conversation together.
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I don’t agree that civility is action and politeness is language. Politeness is formal arbitrary cultural convention, while civility is also arbitrary cultural convention but as dictated by Westernonormative agents. Both apply to language and behavior.
But whatever.
This post by Coturnix at A Blog Around the Clock is Bora’s take on online civility as well as an excellent link farm pointing to all the other stuff out there on this topic, and this is what you should read in preparation to the civility session at Scionliten, this year’s Science On Line conference.
.. because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homepage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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The other day there were cops in front of my local grocery store cajoling people to put money in the Salvation Army bucket. This might be worse:
Yet another blogger is calling for your input and involvement in relation to a session planned for Scioten, the Science Online 2010 conference coming up later this month.
Janet Stemwedel writes: #scio10 preparation: Is there a special problem of online civility?
One of those cool size videos:
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Bora has put out a list of SoTen participants as a twinter …. thing. A list or something.
Do you follow me on twitter? Are you my facebook friend?
Number 46 is up at Adventures of a Free Range Urban Primate.
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Who was the most influential female atheist of 2009?
…here’s a poll focusing just on the female voices of atheism. Who do you think was the most influential female atheist of 2009? …
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Four Stone Hearth #83 the totally cool “The Avatar Edition” … is manifest at The Primate Diaries.
Well, yes. But the question raises some interesting points.
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Not everyone can go to SoTen, but the participants in this upcoming bloggy/onliney conference are tying to keep the discussion broad and involve readers and commenters. The latest effort along these lines is by Ed Young who has posted a post (linking to other posts) pursuant to a panel on science journalism in the age of the web. So you may want to go to his post and poke around.
You may also want to take a look at the whole SoTen program, here. The session I’m involved in, organized by Stephanie Zvan, is to be on trust and critical thinking, and a description of the session and a set of related links is here.
Also, THIS is an important touchstone to some of the topics we’ll be discussing.
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