Multi-Vocality Come to Life: Computer-Mediated Communication in a Diverse Trent Gallaudet Society Batson University Computer networks, used in business or in academia for gropu work or collaborative learning, invite new voices into the cultural conversation, voices not previously heard, or heard only faintly. These are the voices of women, minorities, disabled those traditionally disenpeople, franchised, and even the voices of the chronically shy, the chronically deferential or the chronically thoughtful, who in face-to-face discussions rarely speak up. Yet, it is vital now that our society is moving toward greater and greater heterogeneity demographically that we start to bring in these previously unheard voices to our public discourse. Our move toward increased diversity can be perceived either as a problem or an opportunity. I believe that with the help of computer groupwork, it is an opportunity. Computer groupwork is the means both to encourage multivocality and to turn it to productive uses. Our Project center for deafness, bility by ing a new college: at Gallaudet, the world research and education in has gained national visideveloping and disseminatmode of teaching writing in the ENFI (Electronic Net- works For Interaction) Project! Rewe've begun to work with new cently, groupware tools developed
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