IAR 2

Taking Back Technology Use Seriously: African American Discursive Traditions in the Digital Underground by Adam Banks

What is invention? (what activities did the writer have to engage in to create the text?)

• Reasearch on how AAVE is used online
• Example of specific website that uses AAVE, blackplanet.com
• Uses of the reference "Fear of a black Planet"
• Research on BlackPlanet to express opinions
• Research on AAVE

What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, are in the text?)

• Usernames can suggest AAVE
• Certain areas allow for AAVE to be expressed
• The Internet views race and cultural factors as unimportant
• AA need to be better represented online
• Internet serves as an underground for AA to express themselves without political views

What is arrangement?(How are things being put into relation to one another?)

• General to specific
• Specific to problem
• Problem to explanation
• Compare and contrast with other readings
• Definition and facts
  

What is being arranged?( What is being put in relation to what?)

• Feedback to features online
• Internet to AA
• AA to AAVE
• underground to digital divide

What is revision? ( What strategies are engaged specifically to help achieve the revisions?)

• Specific quotes from linguists and scholars
• Using examples of AAVE on websites
• Quotes and ideas from sociolinguistics and scholars

What is being revised?(What is the writer trying to change?)

• Prevent digital divide
• To accept AAVE as a primary language and AA speak their own language
• Our knowledge of AAVE
• Internet needs to represent all people
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