Heather’s Weblog

In reading Trimbur’s article I was very intrigued by the mention of the alphabet and the fact that we cannot speak in capital letters.  I never have even thought of this before.  Why is it that I never see the link between written and visual.  Maybe because it is so intertwined to me that I do not even think about.

Which makes me think of the fact that when people send emails to me with things in all CAPS and I feel like they are YELLING at me.  Even if they do not mean it that way, I still take it that way (which ties into the fact that emails/computers can be so easily misinterpreted)

It is 1 PM and I have officially finished half of the readings (in VRDW).  I wanted to post something relevant (other than the earlier random information that I find when I should be reading) just in case I do not get a chance to do so before class tonight, but I promise I will finish the rest before class tonight  :>2

Most interesting issue in Rogoff’s article- the information he presented about which “privileged” class should be allowed to access certain information or not.  I never thought about visual media being able o be withheld from certain people, but I guess that if someone wants to withhold information from someone badly enough, then they will be able to do so.

In some strange way this makes me think of the issues of how literacy was used as a way to suppress certain people of certain classes throughout history.  In the same way, certain classes (those who cannot afford he internet, for instance) will, by default, be left out of visual media representations, unless they are receiving them elsewhere (like at school).

I think that is what Rogoff is talking about…