reading response

In the book "Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Centaury Technologies" that was published in 1999 Cynthia L. Selfe wrote a chapter called "Least We Think The Revolution is a Revolution: Images of Technology and the Nature of Change." Selfe wrote about many different ideas, about how technology is different for almost every single person. On page 301 Selfe writes "A second favorite cultural story that we tell ourselves in connection with computers and change focuses on equity, opportunity and access-all characteristics ascribed to the electronic landscape we have constructed on the Internet and to computer use in general."(Page 301) Selfe is saying that with the Internet people should have the same amount of opportunity. Selfe thinks that it doesn’t matter exactly what color you are, what gender you are or any persona qualities affect the way you use the form of technologies. I disagree with Selfe’s view that every single person has equal opportunity in the technology world is incorrect. I believe this because of the recent research has shown that everyone does not have the same access to technology. Also in the chapter that Selfe wrote, Selfe writes " that America is the land of opportunity for only for some people."(Page 304) So, apparently America is not what everyone thinks that we all have the same opportunity. In America many different people come here thinking that they will have a chance of changing there families future. If these people somehow don’t fit into the white male middle society class, then somehow you don’t have the same opportunity as a you white male has. I used the countering affect or "arguing the other side." In the article "Countering" by Joe Harris he explains many different ways of arguing. Arguing the other side is, "showing the usefulness of a term or idea that a writer has criticized or noting problems which one that she or he has argued for." I also used the "I disagree with X’s view that…. Because as recent research has shown," from Graff and Birtsteens book "They Say I say."