When I started to
read this I had to go back and re read the intro and the two fragments. The
first time was to soak up the information and the second time was to see which
one I could relate to on a race count more. I could not catch a connection
besides the years. Then when I think about in class and everyday life pretty
much, even when technology was barely anything and less viral, it has always
had a racial impact on societies from day one. “In fact they co-constitute on
another, comprising not independent slices of history but, instead, related and
useful lenses into the shifting epistemological registers driving U.S. and
global culture in the 1960’s and after”( Tara Mcpherson). Finding out the
origins of knowledge correlating these two fragments seems difficult. The
racial representation in the digital world is seen differently to one as it may
to another.
Wen Omi and Winant
hint on the small and big picture of what the world sees compared to I am not
sure exactly. Because I do not think as the world in a whole would every see
people as equal. With the obvious wars and treaties against others. Then they
go onto to discuss how it is the more of the backstairs term of “separate but
equal”. McPherson talks about how this is a way of organizing the world using
lenticular after the Civil Rights in the United States, but the world is not
all on the same page when being separate but equal. To the United States this
constitutes, whether it is actually utilized to the full power or not. For the
world to be organized by such a vision is difficult and that is where the first
section of the chapter comes into play, and the rules that go along with it
according to Eric Raymond on the UNIX.
After reading
through chapter one I find a more difficult, complex form of what I already
knew. I have always had the thought that race correlates with digital space.
There were racial problems before cyber technology and I find having the
software systems that bring social and wide spread connection with the world
just gives people more of a possibility to spread race. Accounts on social
media it is seen as comic to have race jokes. Yet that just makes the window
for race on the Internet wider, and gives people more room to think it is okay
to keep race on the Internet so pronounced.
So after World
War II and the Civil Rights movement is when the UNIX took a turn in the world
of race and its operating system that causes race to emerge in the digital
world as well as the real world. There are all those rules and i have been on
the internet my whoe life and feel like those rules do not really play a big
role. For example the “rule of diversity” works because most software systems
have all languages and ways to make it your own. Then I think about how diverse
is it to people who are not fully tech knowledgeable. Some of the systems are
hard to move about even for someone who grew up with technology.
All in all I
think that the “Moving Beyond Our Boxes” section gives a good understanding on
what an individual needs to do to slow down the race problems amongst the
digital world. I believe that it does have to do with the individual and not a
certain group of people looking at the big picture.
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