2007 Kairos Awards

Americablog

e martë, 12 qershor 2007

Nomination briefing for Americablog

Americablog.com exhibits kairos and stimulates critical thinking by, discussing a number of political issues and featuring news stories from around the world. The primary author for Americablog.com is an experienced advocacy blog writer named John Aravosis. Joining Aravosis are six guest bloggers with backgrounds in politics. The guest bloggers post regularly and provide a wide range of opinions. The author and bloggers focus on three main issues: the Bush Administration, the radical right, and gay civil rights. While lengths of the discussions vary, posts are often followed by hundreds of comments enabling a discussion to take place.

Americablog.com has many excellent qualities; timeliness being its best. Kairos depends on the appropriate time to present a particular point of view and with the chance that blogs may soon displace mainstream media, stories must be up to date and report on recent issues. Weblogs must take advantage of the window of opportunity for breaking news stories in order to stay popular and useful to their audience. Americablog.com also exhibits kairos is by having decisive action. Expressing a liberal point of view strongly shows decisive action. However, the liberal stance of the author does not take away from the opportunity for discussion.

In conclusion, Americablog.com exhibits kairos and stimulates critical thinking among its readers by taking decisive action and using an appropriate window of opportunity to report on issues. Possessing these traits qualifies Americablog.com to receive a 2007 Kairos Award for Blogging Excellence.

Kairos Scoring

On May 31, 2007, our class listened to two presentations about this blog and deliberated about its quality in light of the evaluation criteria developed to measure excellence in blogging kairos. Below are the average scores awarded after the conversation.

Critical Thinking [out of 25 points]: 19.36
Writing Quality [out of 20 points]: 16.18
Timeliness [out of 15 points]: 14.82
Emotion [out of 15 points]: 11.36
Credibility [out of 10 points]: 7.82
Social Responsibility [out of 10 points]: 7.36
Intangibles [out of 5 points]: 3.45
Total Points [out of 100]: 80.36

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