Jesse Conroy
English 100/O
Part A pg#309-322: Selfe is explaining how gender is not a pre site for success in a technological utopia. Any body can use a computer regardless of gender or race, but advertisements for technology today portray a stereotype of gender and race from the past that does not allow change. Technology seems to promote change yet advertisements for the latest technology portray old school stereotypes such as a beautiful women staring into a sleek new computer monitor that just came out or a man dressed in a business suit walking down the street on his way to work. These ads promote that old way of life when women were stay at home moms and objects of beauty and only men worked. The ads to not promote change, yet technology is always changing.
Part B: In recent discussion on technology, it has become apparent that many people today believe that technology is the answer to global problems. Were in fact, such problems can not be easily fixed by simply using the latest computer software. Cynthia L. Selfe author of the book Lest We Think the Revolution is Revolution , writes “As much as Americans might like to think it; technology is not the solution for all of the worlds problems-and, indeed, it might well be a contributing cause to many of them.” Pg(301) In her book, Selfe shows advertisements that companies have put out in the past to show off their latest technology. The advertisements explain how computers are able to come up with quick solutions to such problems as poverty and war. Selfe goes on to say “in these images I’m afraid, we see reflected not those fundamental and much needed changes we talked about pursuing earlier; not improvements in the world situation, nor the elimination of hunger or pain or suffering or war; not, in other words, an improved life for our fellow inhabitants in the global village or an improved understanding of their cultures and concerns, but, rather the all too familiar stories of how to multiply our own markets, how to increase our own cultural profits at the expense of others, how to ake more effective advantage of need and difference whenever we identify them, and how to reduce the cultures of other people to inexcusable simplifications.” Pg(301) Selfe is showing how these advertisements are attempting to show the consumer that computers can do amazing things like solve global issues, were in reality this is impossible and the companies are just trying to make a profit off other cultures sufferings
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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
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