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12. LP W12 Q3 Salient points: the Internet, democracy & the people

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In order to properly answer the LP Week 12 Question 3 task it seemed necessary to first reflect on, describe, and then consider again the context of this complicated question. The result is a preamble posted in Forum 3.2, Discussion Board, dated Friday, 29 May, 2015.

List of Points that may affect credibility. If the Web in the future:

  • presents issues of exchange, or as (North, March, 1993) says: “the problem of creating institutions that can credibly commit the players to solve problems of exchange”
  • accepts the need for “liberal” and “participatory… democracy” (The Democracy Barometer, 2011)
  • supports “’democracy…[as]  a complex phenomenon, where minimalist measurement” is never enough (The Democracy Barometer, 2011)
  • encourages and supports free and open public discussion about the development of democracy, such as in  Image 1, below, (The Democracy Barometer, 2011)
  • incorporates the demands for mass media communication accountability, (as is again being demanded of journalism), and “to take Citizen Demands into account: the complaints and wishes of citizens” (van der Wurff & Schoenbach, 20 June, 2014)
  • radically changes so the overall, fundamental ethos and operation of certain parts of the Internet are sheltered and away from persuasion and marketing
  • makes parts of the Internet “ad-free” environments (Webb, December, 2006)
  • commits to expend effort to understand, and incorporates and fully presents the populace’s most salient issues, and to support the people’s hierarchy of these issues
  • transparently presents important outcomes and welcomes discussion of matters such as those emanating from lack of ” trust in government”,  the “electoral process and democracy” (Hollander, 24 July 2014)
  • makes other, effective, channels of public, local and global communication available, free of charge, bias, and oppression
  • ensures equal, fair and widespread presentation of all types of websites – such as minority-owned, woman-owned and alternative.
Image 1. democracy barometer. 2014.
Image 1. democracy barometer. 2014.

 Reference

Fogg, B. J. (2003). Credibility and the World Wide Web: Persuasive technology: Using computers to change what we think and do. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufman Publishers.

Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and Self: Identity: Self and society in the late modern age. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Hollander, B, A, (24 July, 2014). The Surprised Loser. The Role of Electoral Expectations and News Media Exposure in Satisfaction with Democracy. College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, 120 Hooper Street, Athens, GA 30602, USA. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.  91(4), 651-668 doi: 10.1177/1077699014543380

Howard, P. N., & Smith, S. (2007 June) Channeling Diversity in the Public Spectrum: Who Qualifies to Bid for Which FCC Licenses?. 84 (2), 215-230. doi:10.1177/107769900708400202

Mayer, K. U. (19 November, 2004). Whose Lives? How history, societies, and institutions define and shape life courses. Research in Human Development, 1(3), 2004 161-187. doi 10.1207/s15427617rhd0103_3

North, D. C. (March, 1993). Institutions and credible commitment. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) / Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 149(1). Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40751576

OECD Statistics Portal. (2015). Definition of non-profit. OECD Glossary of Terms. Retrieved from https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=1822

The Business Directory. (2015). Organization. Retrieved from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/organization.html#ixzz3bQuExgCa

The Business Directory. (2015). Website. Retrieved from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/website.html

The Democracy Barometer. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.democracybarometer.org/Images/img_feb13/RE_en.JPG

The Democracy Barometer. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.democracybarometer.org/

van der Wurff, R. & Schoenbach, K. (20 June, 2014). Civic and citizen demands of news media and journalists: What does the audience expect from good journalism? School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Doi 10.1177/1077699014538974

Webb, S. M. (December, 2006). The narrative of core traditional values in Reiman magazines. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 83(4), 865-882 doi 10.1177/107769900608300409

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9. LP W11 A Three design examples

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Little effort, mental or physical, is needed to use the  “virgin polypropylene” Pipee stacking chair (image 1). As it is extraordinarily light (Lifetime Industries website, 2015)  this chair fits the “kinematic… performance load” description (Lidwell, Holden and Butler 2003) . The chair design  is so familiar, so usable, that the makers can rely entirely on retained, long-term memories. The chair complies with “cognitive… performance load” – and the Lidwell, Holden and Butler “usability” criteria. As this is one of a set of four identical chairs it somehow fits these writers’ “consistency” definition. While touted as durable, ‘recycle’ appears nowhere on chairs or website. Aesthetics appears an alien concept, and Stahel’s (1982) “cradle to cradle” care and thought is probably unheard of .

Image 1. Pipee chair. S. Harford personal image, 2015.
Image 1. Pipee chair. S. Harford personal image, 2015.
Image 2. The Green Dot. S. Harford personal image, 2015.
Image 2. The Green Dot. S. Harford personal image, 2015.

 

An enigmatic Green Dot Symbol (2015)  is in evidence (images 2 & 3) on the backs of three slightly-different-but-same and-performing-the-same plastic bottles of water. Symbols such as the Green Dot function like a logo – they carry a certain message. These messages are always “perceived” – correctly or incorrectly – in a certain way. So  this small symbol lightens, (for better or worse),  “mental … cognitive…  performance load”  (Lidwell, Holden & Butler, 2003).

Image 3. The Green Dot Symbol, 2015.
Image 3. The Green Dot Symbol, 2015.

 

Image 3. Mauritius vongole. S. Harford personal image, 2015.
Image 4. Mauritius vongole. S. Harford personal image, 2015.

Image 4 shows is the former house of a most delicious creature. Always recognisable, all the same shape, colour and texture. The seeker’s performance, or cognitive load, is lessened, as, once seen and enjoyed they are forever recognisable. Regarding performance or kinematic load, again little effort is required.  Although these creatures may vary slightly in shape, all fit beautifully into the palm of a human hand and can easily be gathered into a bucket, and quickly pried open to eat, raw. Kinematic -performance load can be further reduced if steamed. Then all open obligingly – for ready access to their tasty  meat.

Reference 

Lifetime Industries. (2015). Pipee Stacking Chair. Website. Retrieved from http://www.lifetime.net.au/detail/pid/18/id/11/pipee-stacking-chairs

Harford, S. (2015). Personal images.

Stahel, W. R. (1982). The 30th. anniversary of Walter R. Stahel’s Prize-winning paper “The Product-Life-Factor”. Retrieved from http://www.product-life.org/en/the-30th-anniversary-of-walter-r-stahel-prize-winning-paper-the-product-life-factor

The Green Dot Symbol. (n.d.). Symbols.com. Retrieved May 25, 2015, from http://www.symbols.com/symbol/2025.

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