Issue Entrepreneurship: Map the structure of your IE network.

Your message.

1. What is your sticky message? (Barabasi 3) What is the idea you wish to promote or issue/problem you want to try to 'solve'?

Public officials such as the cabinet members should not pay a homage at Yasukuni Shrine!

In addition, Japanese had better to establish a new war memorial for praying war sacrifices by all of people.

3 reasons

Illegal: Japnese constitutional law prescribes the separation of religion and politics.

Morality: Many people such as other Asian people feel displeasure. etc...

Political Purpose: The official or private visit by public officials represented by the Prime Minister takes place many diplomatic problems.

tentative slogan
For normalizing diplomatic relationships! For making a world wide peace/ good cooperation!

'Knowledge of social network.

2. Who is your strategic social group? Can you identify and define the organizational base you will need to develop and/or tap into?

Civilian or Public officials
Japanese or the other Asian people
NGO or Goverment or Yasukuni Shrine
Religious people such as Shinto priest

Strategy for network building.

3. How will work to create your organizational base? How will you spread and encourage others to take up your message?

I will spread my message by propaganda (advertisement) in the famous search engine and H.P. or Blog (Web log). In addition, I make my blog or H.P. and ask them to attach my link to other Webpages. Utilizing Pop-up system and Affiliate Program. SNS is also useful.
I will also use a chain mail.

I will send my sticky message attached with 3 reasons for my message and my H.P.'s URL.

I wiil make my H.P. as the place of discussing my message. If people who accepted my message and are interested in it, they will visit my H.P.

Answers to Questions about Agre, p. 201, pp. 211-214

Agre, p. 201, pp. 211-214p. 211

1. What is the central problem for citizens in democracies?
The centaral problem that the citizens faces is how to participate meaningfully in a society of hundreds of millions, that is how the citizens can communicate and tell their messages to the millions of people.

2. What skills do citizens need?
They need skills for building social capital and participating in the collective production and circulation of political arguements.

3. What term does the author use to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue?
"An Issue Lattice" (p.212 l.18)

4. What steps are the four steps in this process?p. 212-214 Write two of your own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section. Lead a class discussion next session.

The process that citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue has four dimensions (steps).

The vertical dimension: Individuals who stake out a given issue on the national level will generally network with those who stake out the same issue on either the global or the regional level.

The geographic dimension: Individuals who stake out issue in a given geographic jurisdiction will generally network with their counterparts in other jurisdictions.

The Institutional dimension: Individuals who stake out a given issue within one institutional context will generally network with those who stake out the same issue in other institutions

TheIdeological dimension: Individuals who stake out ideologically related positions on different issues in similar institutional locations will generally network with on another

This four-dimensional lattice structure is the essence of civil society.

Write two of your own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section. Lead a class discussion next session.

5. He states that "Above all, the issue lattice is sufficiently complex in its detailed workings that it will never emerge without high levels of political skills diffused throughout the society"(212).

What are high levels of political skills? At first, what are political skills? In addition, how are high levels of political skills spreaded? Is it really that the society spreads them?

6. Can be the ideas of Issue Entrepreneurship spreaded by his methods? How can people know about Issue Entrepreneurship and the methods of it for spreading? By Education? or By Self-effort? or By his introduced ideas (methods)? or All of them?


7. Based on the ideas and issues raised on these pages, what additions, deletions, or modifications suggest themselves to you in planning and implementing your Issue Entrepreneurship? Tell about your ideas.

Before reading this assignment, I did not know and concern about the effect of Issue Entrepreneurship to the democracy well. However, After reading this, I noticed the effectiveness of it and the method and key factors for spreading own messages. I will and also want to try to practice this method!

Issue Entrepreneurship: My First Attempt

My sticky message is this: We should not pay the homage to Yasukuni Shrine and Japanese should establish a new war memorial for paying the homage.

I will try to spread my sticky message by using SNS called mixi. At first, I make a batton of my sticky message and then I requset my friends to spread my batton. If this attempt succeeds, many people who use mixi and thier friends will know my sticky message.

Reply to Kota's Summary

I think that Kota's summary omitted the details of the example part. I agree this attempt because the readers can understand the main claim of the authors except the deatails of the example. In additon, I think that Kota's last sentence of "Also they regard the recent technological revolution in the Internet like blog and wiki as an important factor for the development of democracy." is his reaction and this sentence can utilize for understanding because this actually catches the fact.

A Brief Summary of Kahn and Kellner pp.183-185, pp.190-198

According to Kahn and Kellner, online communities can be used to promote participatory democracy and social justice on local and global scales by using the Internet, the new informational and communicational technologies. This is the main thesis of them. In addition, there are the reactions to recent users of the Internet, that is, terrorists, reactionaries and many kinds of ordinary people. In the example of Iraq War, terrorists certainly used the Internet for their actions and purposes, however, many kinds of ordinary people also used the Internet for promoting democracy and this effect is bigger than the effect of terrorists. Thus, the Internet can promote democracy.

My Issue Entrepraneurship 1(Final)

Your message.
1. What is your sticky message? (Barabasi 3) What is the idea you wish to promote or issue/problem you want to try to 'solve'?

I want to try to solve the issue of Asian diplomacy.
'Yasukuni Shrine should be non-religious.
''Japanese should pray for the victims of WWⅡ at Tidorigafuti instead of Yasukuni Shrine. "
"Public officials should not visit and pray at Yasukuni Shrine by 3 reasons."

'Knowledge of social network.
2. Who is your strategic social group? Can you identify and define the organizational base you will need to develop and/or tap into?

Civilian
Japanese
Asian people
NGO
Goverments
Religious people

Strategy for network building.
3. How will work to create your organizational base? How will you spread and encourage others to take up your message?

I will spread my message by propaganda (advertisement) in the famous search engine and H.P. or Blog (Web log). In addition, I make my blog or H.P. and ask them to attach my link to other Webpages. Utilizing Pop-up system and Affiliate Program. SNS is also useful.



Tell about (and show) my early ideas for your Issue Entrepraneurship

Some inspiring projects

Responds to Questions of Barabasi: The Sixth Link pp. 25-35

1. What is the principle of six degrees of separation? What number of social links does any one person need to be connected to global society? p. 30

The principle of six degrees of separation is the idea that people live in a very dense web and they can easily interconnect from one person to another. In order to be connected to global society, it will require barely more than one social link per person.


2. How is the fabric of society today different from pre-internet society? p. 31

In the fabric of society today, people can get more information and get them quicker than that of pre-internet society because informational nodes are more densely than that of pre-internet society due to the Internet.


3. How many more links separate any pair of web pages compared to people in society? What can explain the difference? p. 34

Any pair of web pages is separated by approximately nineteen links, while people are separated by six social links. Thus, the separation of web pages needs thirteen links more than that of people.


4. So far, what ranges of separation have network scientists discovered in different kinds of networks? p. 34

Network scientists have discovered that species in food webs are two links away from each other, molecules in the cell are separated on three chemical reactions, scientists in different fields of science are separated by four to six links and the neurons in the brain of the C. elegans worm are separated by fourteen synapses.


5. What does research suggest about the fundamentals of networks? p.34-35

The Research suggests that the average separation of nodes in a network is so dense.


6. What is your estimate of your personal number of connections to society? What connections are your strongest?

My personal number of connections to society is perhaps about 40.
My strongest connection can be ICU (students).

Talk about our answers to questions on Barabasi, pp. 25 - 35

Reply to Kota's answers: