Category: All blog entries
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Access: Is it a right? And how do we make it meaningful?
Adam Banks‘ book Race, Rhetoric, and Technology left me thinking something like this: “Hell yes! Wait, what am I supposed to do?” I’m missing the call to action. Or I think I am. Banks’ parting admonition to “carry others” confuses me, reinforcing my belief that there were parts of this…
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Bodies in a technologized world
This week’s reading provided me with at least two sources that combine several of my own interests. “Tales of an Asiatic Geek Girl: Slant from Paper to Pixels” and “Their Logic against Them: Contradictions in Sex, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley” both combined technology and gender in engaging ways.…
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Culture, technology, and globalization
According to Thatcher, there are four levels of cultural and rhetorical patterns that determine how a new technology will be assimilated into a culture. These include the broader cultural context, the local/regional context, the specific organizational culture, and the personalities of those within the organization (385). I like this framework…
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Progress, technology, and culture
Slack and Wise tell us “culture is a site of struggle and has a role in both reproducing inequality and challenging it” (2). So, how do we use technology—a part of our culture—to challenge, rather than reproduce, inequality? As evidenced by the way we have used the power of naming…
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Bubbles and rebellion
I took one of my classes on a little field trip to a fountain on campus here at Illinois State University this week and asked them to look around and see what they saw in terms of visible rhetoric. They came up with lots of examples, one of which was…
Erin Anne Clark 
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