Folks: A while back either on this list or some ISA one, there was a brief discussion of the possibilities of doing video conferencing as an alternative to burning up jetfuel to discuss such things as the evils of, well, burning up jetfuel at academic conferences. (And yes I am guilty of doing this twice in the last few months so it is on my mind!!)
While its not exactly on topic the latest announcement of online content from the journal Policy and Internet does include an analysis that runs in parallel ... Deliberating Environmental Policy Issues: Comparing the Learning Potential of Online and Face-To-Face Discussions on Climate Change *Julien Talpin*, *COSTECH, University of Technology, Compiègne, France*<http://www.psocommons.org/cgi/query.cgi?field_1=lname&value_1=Talpin&field_2=fname&value_2=Julien&advanced=1> 1 *Stéphanie Wojcik*, *CEDITEC, University of Paris Est-Créteil, France*<http://www.psocommons.org/cgi/query.cgi?field_1=lname&value_1=Wojcik&field_2=fname&value_2=St%C3%A9phanie&advanced=1> 2 http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/vol2/iss2/art4/ <http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/announce/20100819> There's got to be at least a few folks on this list who can work with this stuff in the classroom thinking about politics, communication, technology and deliberative democracy etc, even if it doesn't answer many of the questions about how academics might do things differently in the age of google, skype and twitter. And while I am posting, for those of you with a very dark sense of humor, and probably not for anyone on the list not so equipped(!!) on climate change, green guilt and related matters see from the SF Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/08/18/notes081810.DTL Cheers, Simon -- Simon Dalby, Ph.D. Professor, Carleton University www.carleton.ca/~sdalby <http://www.carleton.ca/%7Esdalby> Co-editor of Geopolitics http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14650045.asp http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fgeo Author, Security and Environmental Change http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745642918 (The) "disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition...is...the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments." Adam Smith
