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Your point about forums assumes that forums encompass the full gamut of how people can communicate. "There is decreasing participation for complex topics in for
by tunesmith 9y ago
Your point about forums assumes that forums encompass the full gamut of how people can communicate. "There is decreasing participation for complex topics in forums, therefore people don't want to engage in complex topics." But that doesn't account for the possibility that the form of forums themselves are the problem. With a new kind of forum, perhaps people would engage more in deeper arguments. At the least, lack of participation in other forms of forums wouldn't disprove that.
- intended 9y agoThere's no new kind of forum. Because there's no new kind of human. Communication only for complex ideas requires time and energy to be expended. People would rather have cheap and easy consumable info and move on. The drive is to be able to respond faster, not respond better. Unless it's an area where people have a specific need to understand the subject, they will rarely read complex topics. And people regularly fail that too - take a look at success rates on MOOCs, a small percentage of self driven applicants actually finish the course. It's a human brain problem, not a tech problem. The problem is people and those who know how to manipulate them. Remember that any new form of forum which manages to make people learn complex topics could just as easil make them learn falsehoods or propaganda.