After reading Villanueva’s article, “Spic in English!” the term that I felt had the most to do and could be used best to help myself and my group members in our assignments is when he talked about biculturalism. Villanueva states, “Biculturalism does not mean to me an equal ease with two cultures. That is an ideal. Rather, biculturalism means the tensions within, which are caused by being unable to deny the old or the new (Villanueva 39).” Even though when he wrote this she was talking about two different racial cultures, I believe that the term can also be used in our assignments of comparing two different digital communities. When using Villanueva’s term comparing digital communities you can look at the different sites or software and pick out the differences between the sites and see what makes them unique and what they would be willing to change on their site or not be willing to change.
Villanueva, Victor Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 34-50.
Questions:
In “Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide” the “Hole in the Wall” experiment was intended to:
A. Be used as an experiment to see what the children would the computer for, such as either for gaming and fun or as an educational tool.
B. Provide the cities children with Internet access and let them teach themselves the basics of computing.
C. To give the children something to do that is not troublesome and is safe for them.
D. All of the above.
T or F:
The children’s parents were all thrilled with inclusion of the computers because it kept their children out of trouble and it allowed them to explore the digital world.
