Blog Post #6

In the previous class, and in my own reading, collaboration among groups of people in different spaces was the main topic. I, as well as the rest of the class, learned that the growth of the Internet allows for individuals to communicate and congregate in a more efficient way. Although I the book Her Comes Everybody, the focus was on the positive side of this, the chapter in Baron’s book, entitled, The Dark side of the Web, explains how this collaboration has also lead to the gathering of hateful groups.

It’s a given that with any new technology, there is both a good and a bad. Baron writes about the formation of hateful groups that are able to act in such ways because they can remain anonymous within the Internet.There is no way to control what is posted there, unless the location in which you live has restrictions in place.

As frequent users of the internet, we know that these places where the worst of the worst reside.entire websites have come into scrutiny  There's Reddit that contains questionable content and more recently 4chan that has an entire section thread labeled /b/ which most recently leaked nude pictures of famous female celebrities.

Blog Post #5

Writing has been constantly evolving and as Baron writes it is a constantly changing technology. What I find to be funny is that we are so reliant on technology to work with or to write on that we forget it is not a perfect structure. When they stop working or working as efficiently, we tend to get frustrated. I suppose we are constantly trying to find what is most beneficial to use in writing that we tend to look constantly for short cuts for the writing that we do.

Baron mentions that the philosopher Plato believed that writing would limit the ability of remembrance in humans. He was in some ways right. We rely writing to help us remember important duties in the day and it helps us keep ourselves balance and organized in our activates.  We rely so much on writing that we overlook the fact that writing, too, is not perfectly accurate.

Blog #3

One of the most interesting books I have ever read during my time in high school was Things Fall Apart. It is a book that has stuck with me since it was first assigned for me to read. One of the reasons I believe it has stuck with me is because it was a book that opened discussion for people of many different backgrounds. The manner in which the book ended always prompted the start of a new discussion.

I think that one of the reasons for Okonkwo’s dislike of anything feminine stems from his own insecurities. He gained status in in his village to prove to himself that he was not like his father. His actions are constantly trying to differentiate himself his father by strictly following his own traditions. In doing so, he is unable to accept the changes that arise when Europeans arrive at the village.