This evening, I’ve been reading the blog I’ve chosen to follow: PostGlobal, which you can see in my blogroll at right (hopefully!). The particular format this blog uses is to post a provocative question for a panel of experts to respond to. The public is also invited to join in. The topic if this discussion is whether tribal identities are becoming stronger as nation states weaken. (The context for this is that some have argued that globalization tends to weaken nation states–for example, as Europeans buy into the European Union, they lose loyalty for their countries. That’s the argument anyway.)
The discussion by the panelists was pretty good, but what I found absolutely fascinating were the comments by people from around the world, whose background and viewpoints differ widely from both the experts and mine. That may be the real strength of blogs from a learning perspective. I expect to learn alot from the blog this semester.
September 6, 2006 at 1:48 pm |
Thank you for checking out PostGlobal and please do join our ongoing conversation. Plese email us at the address provided to get more involved, both personally, and with your class, perhaps even posing panel questions and getting Q&A’s going.
Regards.