mind the gap

Mind the Gap

This article mentioned about a concept of the digital divide. “The digital divide is the ever-growing gap between those people and communities who have access to information technology and those who do not.” nowadays, many people will use the internet to obtain information, doing e-business, doing communication and making appointment. We depend on internet for our live. However, in some third world country, they cannot get the internet accessed, it leads them to obtain less information then we does. In the real world, we always use many internets communicating technology to communicate like MSN, email and skype. Those who have not access to internet will use the tradition ways to communicate since they have no idea about the internet communicating technology. we can also see that there is a trend that the traditional communications technology are tied with the internet, such as, some cell phone companies now offer cell phone internet access services. You can now download songs, watching instance stock market information, watching video from youtube, checking emails and even playing MSN though your cell phone. People will leave behind the world if they are not using that internet communicating technology. Moreover, the mass media sometimes will choose the topic that is newsworthy from the internet. After the mass media will report or set agenda for those topic, more cyber-media will focus on those topic. It will be like a cycle. The mass media is cooperating with the cyber media. They are also correlated. As a result, we have to know more knowledge about cyber media.

In my last word, I also consider that the writer talk about the “five puzzle pieces—access, content, literacy, pedagogy and communit” are related to the digital divide very much.

what makes sense to you? I consider that the situation of human combine with the machine and the organism will occur one day in the future. It will break down all of our boundaries between human and animals, human and machine, women and men.

What doesn’t make sense? there is two part I feel like it is doesn’t make any sense, the first part is she talk about “the new economic and technological arrangement are also related to the collapsing welfare state and the ensuing intensification of demands on women” I don’t quiet understand based on which fact or evidence she come up with this conclusion, she should have more explanation on this part. I really can’t see the fact of being cyborgs will lead to the situation above. The other things that she talks about “the culture of the video game will lead to the electronic and nuclear warfare” don’t make any sense to me. It seems to me that these are not related too.

How does Haraway’s manifest to connect to our conversations on digital diversity in general? The new technology of hybrid of human will build up a new digital world. human will be go into the new age of boundless different. It will affect all the political system, social system, social ethic and norms and culture.

More specifically, what questions/issues/concerns/proclamations does she raise with respect to gender and technology? What does her manifesto mean for contemporary conversations on gender and digital media? in the comic, she talk many things about the affect of women, she consider that the “cyborg feminist ave to argue that the female do not want any more natural matrix of unity.” She concern about the technology will lead to sexual boundless between human because new technology will have influence on human ecology on the basic of biology change in our body.