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  • noun Plural form of discussant.

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Examples

  • The discussants basically riff on ideas that the original paper made them think of.

    Blogging from ICSE – day 1 | Serendipity 2009

  • The workshops is set up with discussants giving prepared responses to each full paper presentation, and I love the format.

    2009 May 20 | Serendipity 2009

  • The workshops is set up with discussants giving prepared responses to each full paper presentation, and I love the format.

    2009 May | Serendipity 2009

  • The discussants basically riff on ideas that the original paper made them think of.

    2009 May 20 | Serendipity 2009

  • The discussants basically riff on ideas that the original paper made them think of.

    2009 May | Serendipity 2009

  • In a month, another person improves on it. 23 people participate in the creation of the solution: 3 people wrote code; 1 reviewer; 2 testers; 17 discussants.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • I think there's an elephant in the room that I think is getting largely talked around, and I think it's because to half of the discussants, it's so invisible they don't realize it exists, and to the other half, it's so enormous they can't understand how anybody could MISS it.

    An open letter to the Internet: browngirl 2009

  • It is honestly a sort of straw creature that discussants use as an oppositional category to reify their own conception of a genre; it is a fairly empty signifier.

    MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2) 2009

  • I apologize for not capturing the full dynamics of our discussion in this session - I was one of the discussants, and spent the discussion dodging extremely difficult questions about technological determinism.

    Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: the complex world of ICT and gender 2009

  • Different pattern when it comes to discussion: women represent 11% of Facebook page discussants; men make more posts, so the percentage of posts by women is lower.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

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