Manipulate the coding
In the very beginning of Cynthia Selfe’s “Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution.” She explains what she thinks the internet is doing to the world as a whole and what conceptions it brings about from people all over the world. She believes that there are the 2 different narratives, one which every one wants to believe that is “the global village” and one that represent truth and reality which she named “the electronic colony”. In the idea of “the global village” everybody that uses the internet has the same rights, everyone is equal and everyone respects each others cultures she relates this with the one world one tribe yanomami cd advertisement. We all wish that this were the case and that this magical Christmas land truly existed, but in reality not everyone is equal and everybody doesn’t have the same rights. Selfe explains this narrative with “the electronic colony” where she states that those with greed and power do not want to have to give up any of this greed and power she relates this narrative with the American colonial story ad. She shows this idea by stating that Americans take up 20 percent of the population and we as a country use up 80 percent of the worlds resources which isn’t fair to the rest of the world. When it comes to the internet Americans will want to maintain this same status and try to be pioneers of this new land. Why I think that everyone can not be equals online is because different people have different abilities, so people can display their views more persuasively or manipulate the coding of computers to get other users to follow them thus giving them a way to get things that others couldn’t. Also the internet is more like an extension of peoples personal views so all cultures will not be evenly tolerated and accepted because I have seen forums and blogs where this disrespect has been shown.
I would say that I uncovered values in this passage because in Cynthia Selfe’s essay she covered both the sides of an argument for the two narratives so that is definitely out of the picture for me. So I think that I an somewhere in the mix of dissenting because I identify with one of her two sides and uncovering values because I expanded on this common idea in which we share.
In the very beginning of Cynthia Selfe’s “Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution.” She explains what she thinks the internet is doing to the world as a whole and what conceptions it brings about from people all over the world. She believes that there are the 2 different narratives, one which every one wants to believe that is “the global village” and one that represent truth and reality which she named “the electronic colony”. In the idea of “the global village” everybody that uses the internet has the same rights, everyone is equal and everyone respects each others cultures she relates this with the one world one tribe yanomami cd advertisement. We all wish that this were the case and that this magical Christmas land truly existed, but in reality not everyone is equal and everybody doesn’t have the same rights. Selfe explains this narrative with “the electronic colony” where she states that those with greed and power do not want to have to give up any of this greed and power she relates this narrative with the American colonial story ad. She shows this idea by stating that Americans take up 20 percent of the population and we as a country use up 80 percent of the worlds resources which isn’t fair to the rest of the world. When it comes to the internet Americans will want to maintain this same status and try to be pioneers of this new land. Why I think that everyone can not be equals online is because different people have different abilities, so people can display their views more persuasively or manipulate the coding of computers to get other users to follow them thus giving them a way to get things that others couldn’t. Also the internet is more like an extension of peoples personal views so all cultures will not be evenly tolerated and accepted because I have seen forums and blogs where this disrespect has been shown.
I would say that I uncovered values in this passage because in Cynthia Selfe’s essay she covered both the sides of an argument for the two narratives so that is definitely out of the picture for me. So I think that I an somewhere in the mix of dissenting because I identify with one of her two sides and uncovering values because I expanded on this common idea in which we share.
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