IAR2

"Taking Black Technology Use Seriously: African American Discursive Traditions In the Digital Underground" -Adam J. Banks

What is invention?
-research on AAVE (history and analysis)
-writings and opinions of known sociolinguists such as the Rickfords, Smitherman, Gilyard and Crawford
-sites and popular culture related to AAVE
-how AAVE is used personally with users

What is being invented?
-technology dismisses the possibility of different cultures
-technology is used as an outlet for african americans to reveal culture
-no need for just a "white" culture on the internet
-develop online communities where users can relate with culture
-AAVE is a legitimate idea used with technology

What is being arranged?
-research to actual use
-examples of AAVE
-"underground culture" vs. mainstream
-real culture vs fake mainstream

What is arrangement?
-use of examples from users
-quoting research and explaining further
-lists of how to master development

What is being revised?
-technology should grow to help understand equal representation of different cultures
-the idea of policing to "white" standards
-idea of a digital divide
-somewhat of an underground even though it is well known, but still not fully accepted

What is revision?
-users opinions from websites that support the writers opinions
-use of information from sociolinguists
-easy to relate with real examples of what he is writing about