Entering the List: Campaigning for Bilingual Education on the Net  

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Monaghan, Frank

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 4 (2003), page 281-302.
Fulltext: Vol. 17, No. 4, p 281-302.pdf (258.46KB)

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This paper describes and explores the activities ofmembers of a listserv group in their efforts to defend bilingual education in Arizona. Their anonymity has to be preserved as this is a politicallysensitive issue and they might be professionallycompromised by publishing any identifying details. During the period under discussion they were campaigning against the inclusion of a proposition (Proposition 203) on an electoral ballot to outlaw bilingual education. The ballot was sponsored by the millionaire computer entrepreneur Ron Unz, who had successfully financed a similar move in California – the infamous ‘Proposition 227’. The paper attempts to delineate the ways in which such a ‘virtual’ group develops the cohesion it requires in order to sustain its activities in the absence of direct, face-to-facecontact. It reports on a survey carriedout amongst its members to discover their diverse reasons for joining and remaining in such a group and the level of their activeinvolvement within it. In seeking to document the motivations and activities of a listserv it inevitably sets up a model for others to examine and, possibly, emulate.

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