https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x Read the "sparks," and post your own commentary, connections or insights and connect them (click the three dot menu and select connect to post then click on the spark). en-us 2017-09-28 22:05:32 UTC 2026-01-17 19:13:42 UTC hello@padlet.com john_paul1 https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/192288779 It's hard to even remember what the processing unit looked like, but it sat on the bottom, and was connected to TV-like monitor bigger than any television my family ever owned, and had a keyboard attached to it]]> 2017-09-28 22:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/192288779 john_paul1 https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/192289049 "For all the time and effort it would take me to become competitive with my friends and family members in John Madden's namesake football game... the games and maybe even the gaming systems will have changed, making my work that much hard."]]> 2017-09-28 22:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/192289049 john_paul1 https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193253965 Instead imagine one where an entire group of people have been systematically denied the tools, the literacies, the experiences, the codes and assumptions behind the design choices, the chance to influence future designs and uses, and make the stakes that people's educational success, employability and thus their incomes, roles in the society, and their political power]]> 2017-10-03 02:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193253965 john_paul1 https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193254220 The irony of this invisibility is that African American critical theory provides ery sophisticated tools for the analysis of cyberculture, since African American critics have been discussing the problem of multiple identities, fragmented, personae, and liminality for over a hundred years]]> 2017-10-03 02:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193254220 john_paul1 https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193254338 African American history as reflected through its rhetorical production shows a group of people who consistently refused to settle for the limiting parameters set by either/or binaries. Instead African Americans have always sought "third way" answers to systematically racist exclusions.]]> 2017-10-03 02:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193254338 john_paul1 https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193254576 To say that one must play fuller, richer chords, and leave individuals more room for improvisation both with and against those chords is not to say that there is no music that can reflect their collective energy and aspirations.]]> 2017-10-03 02:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193254576 john_paul1 https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193255097 I proceed from what I believe to be the one constant that holds fixed regardless of the understandings of race, culture, or identity one might choose: that African Americans have always, since being brought to the American colonies and the United States as slaves, existed in a society that has rigorously enforced, and steadfastly refused to correct, a system of exclusions connected to race.]]> 2017-10-03 02:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/john_paul1/zc02k85vd73x/wish/193255097