Salad Bowl vs. Melting Pot: Old Metaphors Revisited
In preparation for CCK08’s Week 5 (yeah, I did some reading again, finally 🙂 ), I read Stephen Downes’ transcribed presentation on “Groups vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues“. He makes compelling distinctions between groups and networks and uses old metaphors that I know from my English and North American Cultural Studies classes. Groups – […]