Sunday, March 1, 2009

IAR Analysis 2

Taking Black 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?)
· AAVE research
· Quoting specific scholars, Smitherman
· Research on Blackplanet.com
What is being Invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?)
· People talk and express themselves differently online
· People feel more comfortable online
· How AAVE is appropriated online
· AA is going “underground”
What is being arranged? (What is being put in relation to what?)
· AAVE online and other digital mainstream sites
· “Underground” and digital divide
· “Underground” and AAVE
· AAVE and digital divide
What is arrangement? (How are things being put in relation to one another?)
· Problems to causes
· Problems to solutions
· Compare and contrast
· Examples to conclusions
What is being revised? (What is the writer trying to change (e.g. what ideas, practices, etc.)?)
· Eliminate stereotypes that AAVE is below SE
· Take away the digital divide
· Accept AAVE as a primary language just like SE, become bilingual
What is revision? (What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions?)
· Smitherman quotes
· Own quotes and examples (real life)
· Blackplanet.com examples

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