But if we imagine our co-nationals through media, discourse and shared culture, as Anderson envisioned, it is no wonder that our political communities are increasingly fractured and tribal.
The competent members of that community understand the denotations and connotations of the otherwise opaque concept by way of shared discourse and shared practice.
The texts each speak to a particular kind of audience, each with a common discourse and shared professional jargon.
I hope you'll find the interface a useful step on the journey toward building and sharing constructive online discourse on ways to forge progress on a finite planet.
"There's an ambivalence that probably runs through both parties and runs through the minds of many Americans," she says, "because there haven't been frank statements in our political discourse about the value of sharing resources and sharing risks for a long time".
Joint interviews are commonly used when analyzing the interactions between dyads; they help to create a dyadic picture and shared discourse, allowing the researcher to learn about the dyadic relations of domination/being dominated (Eisikovits and Koren 2010).
The notions of "truth" and "objective" knowledge and facts within science, while largely still exalted in the mainstream, have been advanced by critical thinkers to be more an "intersubjective" consensus among interested parties who at best remove their egos but rarely abandon their most basic biases favoring a shared reality from the collection of data and shared discourses.
The discourse around data sharing and collaboration has largely moved beyond urging companies to offer APIs – now the task at hand is to make the offering of quality APIs easy.
At the periphery of the China-Vietnam border, Vietnamese women join in these modernization projects and share local discourses in terms of what constitutes personal success based on a number of facilitating factors.
Moreover, in local climate change policy, there seem to be two discourses that have served to frame the adaptation and mitigation discourses: (a) the 'energy' discourse, shared with local civil society and energy policy domain stakeholders (climate change mitigation), and (b) the 'water' discourse, shared with water sector stakeholders.
