Discussion
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What general comments do you have about Life Lecture? What worked, what didn't?
Did you learn anything? If so, what?
What made you choose to answer a question or refrain from asking one?
Did you feel any social pressures?
Do you feel that people were being honest? Was honesty something you were assessing or did you just take it for granted that people were telling the truth?
Can you be sure that you know what you yourself feel?
Were there questions that in retrospect you wished you had the opportunity to answer.
At what points did you identify with other people's stories?
What question did you want to ask?
If you were to translate this experience into an action for the future, what would that be?
Can you imagine other subjects that would work using the collective lecture format?
The internet is considered a system par excellence for delivering content into people's private homes but Life Lectures explores the possibilities for using this technology for the operation of collective sharing of knowledge and witeness in real time. Did this work?
Is it possible to use the web to engage audience participation effectively given that power is handed from a 'charismatic host' to a collective of strangers?
What are the ways in which autobiographical expertise can be shared in a public forum without any preparation or resorting to the confessional?
Would you participate in life lecture again sometime?