Sunday, March 1, 2009

IAR analysis

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?)
  • Research on AAVE
  • Research of how AAVE is used online
  • specific quotes from Smitherman and other scholars
  • Example of a specific website that uses AAVE, blackplanet.com

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

  • examples of how African American use AAVE online
  • the internet is place for people to be themselves and provides comfort for African Americans who lvie in mostly white environments
  • how people express themselve differently online

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

  • the internet in relation to AAVE
  • AAVE in relation to "underground"
  • "underground" in relation to digital divide
  • digital divide in relation to the website blackplanet.com
  • black planet in relation to rhetorical features

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

  • general to specific
  • specifc to problem
  • problem to examples
  • examples to explanation

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

  • to prevent the digital divide.
  • to prevent dicrimination and stereotypes online
  • to accept AAVE as a primary language and allow African Americans to speak their own language without discrimination

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

  • specific quotes from linguists and scholars
  • specific examples such as the website blackplanet.com and "the underground"
  • specific examples of AAVE being used online
  • specific solutions to the probem

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