Standing Ovation: Narrative #1: The "Global Village" and the "Electronic Colony"

Friday, October 29, 2010

Narrative #1: The "Global Village" and the "Electronic Colony"

Group 1
Caity Chutuk, Sarah Benne, Jared Eckert, Makayla Paige, Jon McEdward, Kylie Garrison, Dylan Langei

Popular nattative: "One of the most popular narratives Americans tell ourselves about computers is that technology will help up create a global village in which the peoples of the world are all connected--communicating with one another and cooperating for the commonweal....cthe computer network that spans the globe will serve to erase meaningless geopolitical bordres, eliminate racial and ethnic differences, re-establish a historical familial relationship which binds together the peoples of the world regardless of race, ethnicity, or location."

Revised narrative: "In the revised narrative, the global village retains its geographica reach, but it becomes a world in which different cultures, different peoples, exist to be discovered, explored, marveled at--in a sense, known and claimed by--those who can design and use technology. Inhabitants of this electronic global village, in turn, become foreigners, exotics, savages, objects to study and, sometimes, to control."

Why do American's revise the narrative?
-American's revise the narrative so that they can experience the world, without having to leave the comfort of their home.

How do we revise it?
-We take stories we already have about American's giving to other lesser civilations than us and applying it to more modern technologies.

What are the consequences of that revision?
-The revision makes American's feel like they're a part of the world, but they're actually removed from it. "...a white blond woman sits in a well appointed living room that is chock full of artifacts from around the world; several big-screen viewing areas in front of her feature images of exotic peoples and far-off locations, a large computer with a world map on the screen, and a globe complete with representation."

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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with 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), we 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?

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