Wednesday, February 25, 2009

IAR-Taking Black Technology Use Seriously...

What is invention?
-research AAVE
-cite and research scholarship from sociolinguists and scholars ( Smitherman, Holmes, Powell, Rickford, Rose, etc)
-research the "underground" in African American Culture
-research how AAVE is used on the Internet

What is being invented?
-cyberspace dismisses race and culture as irrelevant
-websites serve as cultural underground for African Americans
-African Americans need to be better represented online
-there exists certain features of AAVE online

What is being arranged?
-history of AAVE to the "underground"
-"underground" to the digital divide
-digital divide to problems of access and use
-problems to online feedback
-online feedback to African American discursive feature online
-features online to rhetoric

What is arrangement?
-discussion to discussion
-example to example
-example to application

What is being revised?
-technology needs to allow all people equal representation online
-African Americans should have the right to their own language
-the digital divide still exists
-the "underground" still exists

What is revision?
-examples of AAVE on websites (Black Planet)
-cites well-known sociolinguists
-resources to support arguments

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