“Waterwheel-an online space where you can interact, share,
perform and debate about water as a topic and metaphor with people around the
world.” I thought this site was
very interesting, I hadn’t seen many other sites like this. It creates a unique way to discuss a
problem and gain perspectives of other.
I also thought the use of metaphors was very clever. It took me a little time to explore and
read the different sections to understand how the site fully works.
By sharing different perspectives
on water it helps us to understand how some resources are viewed in other
countries as opposed to our own.
Our use and how our society views a resource will shape how we view the
resource. By gaining different perspectives from other societies we gain a new
outlook and may think twice about our use in our own society.
Growing awareness and finding out issues, is important
because as discuss the as Suzon Fulk discussed in her interview, sometimes were
unaware something is even an issue.
In relation to water, people may view it as a commodity opposed to a a
scarce resource depending on what part of the world you’re from and your first
hand experience with this resource.
The creator of the site wrote that
it, “fosters creativity, collaboration, inter-cultural exchange”, which I
believe are some stills people do not always utilize when they attempt to solve
a problem. The Internet along
with social media, allows normal citizens to decide what topics and problems
should be discussed and how to solve them. I think this is
important, because now instead of the news/media companies deciding what issues
are important, citizens can help to determine the important topics of our time.
This is also good because there are
multiple perspectives provided so this lowers the probability of getting a
biased perspective
A few questions I had were: Besides
spreading awareness and gaining multi-cultural perspectives is the site also
suppose to be a mechanism for change, or fixing the problems that are
associated with water? If so how
does it do this?
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