My gun-safety class had taken a short break, and now I found myself entering a conversation about firearms with a guy who looked as if he'd been born clutching an ammunition belt.
Alexander Wamboldt, an affable, bearded Princeton Ph.D. who worked as a SHIFT ethnographer, told me that it was important, in these encounters, to "model good, consensual research behavior" — he announced his name and his purpose, along with a disclaimer about confidentiality, before entering a conversation.
Entering a conversation about our histories and our prejudices has yielded for me new perspectives.
Though you may not know much about cars, entering a conversation with him about it and showing a genuine interest in it will surely bring a smile to his face.
According to West, the best trolls enter a conversation, make a comment or two, set off a fight, and step back as other trolls emerge to sling punches.
And if you think about it logically, if emotion enters a conversation, at some point in time it's going to get ugly.
There is a fear that we will enter a conversation not being completely up-to-date, but what is the point of a conversation if all we are exchanging are the facts we already know?
The detail view is fairly information rich, which is good, but when you enter a conversation, the view presents the last tweet you clicked on as the top one, with no indicator that there might be some above it.
"In the past, we have repeatedly found that set views about animal testing do change, and prejudice does disappear, when we enter a conversation with the public and the media," says Jörg Hacker, president of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle, in a statement issued today.
COO Francis Costello said that the feature should be particularly useful for StockTwits' publishing partners like CNN Money, Globe & Mail, and Yahoo Finance — now it's possible for someone looking at StockTwits from a partner site to see the full discussion, making them feel comfortable enough "to enter a conversation across our distribution network," Costello says.
"My Chechen Wolves" entered a conversation -- or argument really -- that continues to play out between ethnic factions online.
