IAR 2

I chose to do my IAR on Taking Black Technology Use Seriously: African American Discursive Traditions in the Digital Underground writteen by Adam Banks because i feel it was the easiest to understand and to realate to. It talks about things on Blackplanet.com that I see alot on Facebook everyday.

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

• Research African American Vernacular English(AAVE)
• Research how it is used in digital spaces
• Quote other linguist (Smitherman, Rickfords)
• Research on "The Underground of AA culture"
• Discuss a website that appropriate AAVE(i.e. blackplanet.com)

What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?)

• Blackplant.com and other sites like it serve as "underground" networks
• The internet allows people (mainly those that use AAVE)to freely express who they are with out much worry of what people will think because there are millions of others doing the same.
• The internet was supposed to eliminate race and culture separation but that never really happened thus the "digital devide"

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

• The internets purpose --> AA
• AA --> The "underground"
• The "underground" --> AAVE use
• AAVE use --> digital divide
• Digital divide --> AA suspected use of the internet
• AA suspected use of the internet --> Purpose of BP(blackplanet.com)
• BP --> Breakdown of BP (discursive feat.)
• Breakdown of BP (discursive feat.) --> Rhetorical feat.

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

• General -->Specific (internet --> BP)
• Examples --> explanation

What is being revised? (What is the writer trying to change (e.g. what ideas, practices, etc.))?

• Eliminate the digital divide
• Eliminate the stereotype (assume all users are white)
• Accept the use as AAVE just the same as SE

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

• Quote other linguist
• Examples of real life situations (library's blocks)
• Thoroughly discuss an AAVE appropriated website (BP)
• Solutions to make the Digital Divide less intense