Bogost’s Rhetoric Blog Post

The article begins by introducing a protagonist, Amy Webb who broke her ankle and was forced to use the backscatter machines in the airport that produce X-Ray images of passengers. This was a great way to start off this article because it gets the reader involved instantly introduces what the rest of the article is going to be about. The author then goes on to say how Amy turned that inconvenience of breaking her ankle, into an opportunity to watch how technology like that works.

The next rhetoric device I noticed was how the author explains his role at Georgia Tech in the “Constellations Center for Equity in Computing.” Bogost states how their goal is to increase access to computer science education among women and people of color. Bogost then gives many facts and states that integration is much harder than diversity.

Isbell, who also worked at Georgia Tech thinks that two separate conditions should be met in order to accomplish their goal. “One is that the new folks are both capable and confident. The other is that the old folks are willing.” Using quotes throughout the article is a great way to prove the authors points and convey the message thats being conveyed throughout. In addition to the quotes from Isbell, Bogost includes quotes from Kamau Bobb, the global lead for diversity research and strategy at Google and a senior director at Constellations. Bogost explains how Bobb isn’t so sure the tech industry is willing to diversify. he gives numerous quotes that Bogost includes in this article which helps prove his point and is very effective.

“Their goal is to get more people in the game, not necessarily to change the rules of that game..” This quote really stuck with me. . A rhetoric device is used here to convey Bogost and Bobb’s message. They showed having a very confident tone which. also. helps prove their point.

The article ends with Webb describing how women, people of color and others are being discriminated against when it comes to computing and how it should change.“We’re all discriminated against by computing.”  “Anyone who falls outside of that core group of interests are not being represented,” Webb said. The last line of the article was in my opinion a very effective way of closing It out. If Webb is in fact right about all this, “the problem with computing is computing.”