Cynthia Selfe - Lest We Think The Revolution is a Revolution (response)

Cynthia Selfe, in her book "Lest We Think The Revolution is a Revolution," explains how there is a large misconception towards technology and the affects its having on our culture. She talks on three narratives (myths, illusions) that America believes when it comes to technology: "The Global Village," "Land of Equal Opportunity," and "The Un-Gendered Utopia." Selfe equates these narratives into their true form in society as: "The Electronic Colony," "Land of Difference," and "The Same Old Gendered Stuff." Selfe urges "[c]omputers...are complexly socially determined artifacts that interact with existing social formations and tendencies - including sexism, classism, and racism" (pg. 306). She here explains that through social and cultural beliefs, our technology reflects the hypocracy in the system. Although it is said that technology is curing all these problems by making the world a "Global Village" or whatever, it is quite evident of the opposite. Selfe continually refers to 50's adds, showing that America wishes that it was still in the confident "we just won WWII" stride. This 50's mentality is what keeps the public in denial enough to not realize that these myths are far from being followed.