Sunday, January 31, 2010

Cynthia Selfe wrote an article called, "Lest we think the Revolution is a Revolution Images of Technology and the Nature of Change". My group and I started reading page 309 second paragraph we kept going till the end. This section was mainly about how our gender decides what role we are perceived as and how technology has affected that. Selfe starts out referring to the fact that women have been cast as the seductress, mother, or the beauty. We used to believe that technology would help us get out of those roles, but it has only accented them. She goes on to speak about how males today have been cast as the business man, nerd, rebel or sex maniacs. The most common being the business man. Technology used to be thought of as an escape, new chances, new future, but it has only made these roles more prevalent in todays society. Selfe used ads from an everyday magazine to back up her points. The people in these ads fell into one of those previous categories. Will these gender roles ever change? I feel to change these roles we need to start with our youth in school. "A good English studies curriculum will educate students robustly and intellectually rather than narrowly or vocationally. It will recognize the importance of educating students to be critically informed technology scholars rather than simply expert technology users."(322) What Selfe is really getting at here is that instead of teaching students how to use technology, really inform them of the whole atmosphere of it. As students, we need to think critically of technology. And become well educated in it as a field.

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