Technology and African American Rhetoric by DBLAC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5 Discussion Quotes en-us 2019-03-05 19:05:50 UTC 2026-02-01 19:21:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338111449 "African-American experiences have always been technologized" (71).]]> 2019-03-05 19:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338111449 dblacorg https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338111782 "...no matter how deeply embedded and enduring those [digital] divides are, devoting attention to them runs the risk of another deeply embedded problem: the stereotype of Black people as inherently non-technological" (82).]]> 2019-03-05 19:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338111782 https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338112424 "White supremacy is fundamentally related to technological control" (71).]]> 2019-03-05 19:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338112424 "Understanding technological racialization as a particular form of algorithmic oppression allows us to use it as an important framework in which to critique the discourse of the internet as a democratic landscape and to deploy alternative thinking about the practices instantiated within commercial web search."(84) https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338112971 2019-03-05 19:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338112971 dblacorg https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113164 "Technologies are interconnected systems of tools, politics, policies, labor, design, marketing, and use. Our view must be intersectional in its approaches to exigence and production, to call and response. Our view must also be multimodal in attempting to account for print, oral, visual, and performance communication and the networks within which that communication takes place--across specific modes in transmedia spaces.]]> 2019-03-05 19:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113164 https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113168 " [Technologies] are the result of choices, of social processes, and consequently they embody interests, positions, and attitudes" (73).

]]> 2019-03-05 19:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113168 https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113360 Images of White Americans are persistently held up in Google's images and in its results to reinforce the superiority and mainstream acceptability of Whiteness as the default "good" to which all others are made invisible (82]]> 2019-03-05 19:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113360 https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113573 "... Technologies do not only have yo he weapons of war or instruments of domination, but could also be deployed for racial justice and as part of a broad humanism linking audiences across boundries." Page 80]]> 2019-03-05 19:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113573 "The potential rebels, presumably would-be challengers of White Supremacy had already been disciplined by systems of technology-- schools, courts, prisons, media, labor practices-- that translated into the "fears of years." https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113635 2019-03-05 19:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338113635 https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338114057 “crucial to link conceptually the increased militarization of the policing, media proliferation of the stereotype of Black people a violent and criminal, the long history of disciplining Black bodies culminating in current mass incarceration, and the structural limits faced by even african-american president and attorney general” (74)]]> 2019-03-05 19:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338114057 dblacorg https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338115126 2019-03-05 19:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338115126 "The seemingly ubiquitous nature of digital devices and connection makes it easy to assume that digital devices and connections makes it easy to assume that digital divides either no longer exist or are no longer significant factors in access to opportunity or quality of life for groups of people who have been subjected to systematic exclusion from the technology sector."(p. 81) https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338115206 2019-03-05 20:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338115206 https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338115469 “...I am claiming that you cannot have social justice and a politics of recognition without an acknowledgement of how power—often exercised simultaneously through White supremacy and sexism—can skew the delivery of credible and representative information (84)”]]> 2019-03-05 20:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338115469 dblacorg https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338115636 2019-03-05 20:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dblacorg/9sq5eze4lia5/wish/338115636