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"But despite the media’s penchant for beating to death anything to do with the Internet, a new phrase has recently entered the public’s online lexicon, one that actually carries significant societal ramifications: the “digital divide.” In the most basic sense, the digital divide is the ever-growing gap between those people and communities who have access to information technology and those who do not. (In other words, to use another pedestrian metaphor, the have’s and the have-not’s.) The digital divide has been on the radar screens of those of us in the policy world for a while now, but over the course of 1999 its profile was raised as more political leaders took an interest in the subject."
The article show us many way in which the digital divide is one of the most important part of civil rights. We all know the all know have civil right is a very impowing feeling. No one should every feel like they are nobody. Also article show tje real number of people who have access to the internet at home and other place they may travel to in there daily lives.

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The article Cybory Manifesto by Donna Haraway is a good piece. I like how it talks about the us being part cyborg in a way. Humans as a whole are all inegrated in to a circuit of life. We all know how to use the internet to fine out information.The biggest thing right now is the fact that we can tell the difference between male and female. The part of being human is being able to know how the other gender works in different situations. We all know that males trend to be more domain about things. But, on other hand we all know that women can be just as strong as men. This is the idea of feminism comes in to play. Being a strong, self-filling, able woman comes in to the big picture. The article says towards the end that we are going to have to become part of this giant cyborg matrix. The fact is that if to gender; age and some many other things are going too lost to the fact that we are part of a one huge system of data. I honestly do not want to be a part of this one size fits all standard. I know the day in age will come were we are all going to have conform to a new normal everyday life.Even though some people may want this type of change I know that I have to be ready for this change to come. I may not like it but it is some that is going to happen may ten years from now.
Feminism is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. The view, articulated in the 19th century, that women are inherently equal to men and deserve equal rights and opportunities. More recently, feminism is a social and a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women; feminist movement: the movement aimed at equal rights for women; political movement that took holds in the United States in the late 1960s and soon spread globally. I understand the fact that women have more power not then than back in the old in days but still I wish I could understand this consist need for more. I guess in my mind I just wish everything could be just equal. I know they say it is but I know it is not. So I guess in the end maybe being a cyborg is not a complete horrible idea. The thing I worry about is being a unique person with thoughts and feeling to only me.
So the question I ask you is were do you want to stand when the age of being a cyborg comes about?

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The next article I read was the second Nakamura article on Cyberspace. We learn that you can pretend to be anyone because no one can really know you else they are one of your real friends. In these online profile you can become the popular person that you may not be in real life. Sometime we all want to be something we are not, so that others may like us. But the truth is we are who we are. Trying to to change for everyone is impossible and also it is not good for yourself esteem. The most important thing to remember about the being online with a profile is to be who you are on the inside and it will show through to the outside. I that people look at a person and judge them for how they look and act. we are all just trying to find our place in this earth. I feel that for me my place is somewhere i can listen to my music , see friends, and live a drama free life. As we all know that does not exist, but we try to achieve that with being online. This online life we can represent ourselves any way we want to.
Most people try to represent with there race they actual are in real life. On the other hand some people hide there race, gender,age and others. They do this fit in the mold on being a insider not to be an outsider. That is a fine line to walk between knowing who you are and being the cool person. I believe that online life is its own worst and best emeny. It could come back to haunt you with everything you have every said to someone. It could be good for you in the fact that you can use it to find out that someone has been talking bad things about you. All that means is you should watch what you say about yourself and other people.

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The article I read was by Nakamura is all about cybernetic tourism, the internet, and transnationality. She makes a lot of point on how the world is always moving forward and changing into our future. One point that really stood out to me is the fact it does not matter your age, gender or race, the internet is only just a bunch of different mind coming together to brainstorm ideas on how to improve or even enrich our lives and the lives of the future generation to come here on earth. We all interact we each other on some level of communcation. In day to day living most of the time it is just a bunch of small talk we make with people to get through the day to live. We have known the person for years and have become one of their good friends. Throughout this article she makes reference to how the cyber world is a utopia and sense of great human interaction. We al know that one of the earliest things we learn as a baby is how to interact with each other. Some of the skills we have travel with us all throughout life. They kind of in a way guide us to the way we think things in life should be or even are going to be. Nakamura shows that we can find any amount of information in this other world. But, also knowing this other world that exists could bring us to a whole new understands of our peers around the world. Take into account those peers do not have to be the same age, gender or race.

It points out that the amount access people have depends on a lot of different variables we all have to face to get on to the internet and the cyber word. I know that having access to this great world has opened my eyes to the place I may one day travel to as a tourist. But, then when I watched the commercials on YouTube about the Olympic. It showed me that I may live miles and miles away from there, but I still feel like they are the same as the rest of us. They are people that are just trying to live and survive in this ever changing and forward moving place. I believe that the commercials and the article have truths to them. Also, that they are a lot a like in the fact they give the world a face. This honestly gives me the sense the cyber is not so scary and just might be cool.

I think that digital diversity is about the how there are many different types of media out in the world. Also, I believe this class will show me how media has a impact on everyone life no matter what type of digital media you look at in life..
I would hope to learn in this class how to better understand the message digital media gets across to all different walks of people ( e.g. the young and old). Plus i would like to learn why digital diversity is so important to us and the world today.