W2: Exercise One

Building a concept of “we-ness” through virtual communication is a tough task. But also very interesting. No matter how people interact with people in virtual world, people still need to get in to the real world, in my observation. From match.com, you can easily find that internet is just the medium. You can reach more people not in your region or in your area. Convenience and efficiency are highly improved. On the other hand, it might result in in-effectiveness. Rich information does not represent RIGHT information.

So back to the topic, I would overlap the arrangement of people’s duties because more interactivities even conflicts can enhance the feeling of team work. Of course, the first assumption is under the same goal. I believe that everyone can agree the big impact that internet brought is connections. So taking advantage of that will be a method to develop the we-ness concept. For instance, divide the whole team into different sub-groups. Let each group come up the ideas about the work. This kind of small games and activities can help.

When I was a teaching assist for the distant learning course “media management”, students need to corporate a project and final presentation with students in different countries. They had a hard time communicating with each other. Not because of the language, but the time difference. However, IM technology and email as well kind of solve this problem. Those brought them in the same platform. I believe this experience is very unique, but necessary under the globalization.