- While reading the posts from my classmates I began realizing a pattern in what is taking place in our world. The population of the world is continuously growing exponentially, and where there was once a large barrier separating our world there is now connectivity that engages everyone into the global network. Through solid research, there is an endless list of minority groups and subgroups who face serious disadvantges in all aspects of life. The ideology behind a homogenous world can not work with such a connected population, and where there was once separation between cities and countries there is now a thorough mix of personalities and people spread around the world.
I found myself struggling with pulling certain quotes or passages that align with many others, because everyone has found a new dark corner that needs attention. It seems like our world strives for the future but we are forgetting about who we may be leaving in the past. The disadvantaged groups such as women, people of color, neurodiverse individuals, and the LGBTQ+ community have struggled for centuries for an equal opportunity in life. The role that social media and the internet has played in connecting people with their minority groups and forming communities has been crucial, and the tools have given people who are born into a life of struggle a helping hand in a difficult world.
This class discussion has enabled me to peek behind the curtain of many industries I’m not fully engaged in, although most have the same underlying issue of the outdated organizational culture. The bar graph that reflects the racial proportions of the students in a school district and in the Gifted and Talented Education Program helps the reader visualize how much a person’s physical appearance can affect their lives. I found this post the most engaging because of how important the life of a child is; it is the time in a persons life where they learn what it means to be a person in our society, and to give a child a skewed perspective of our world can seriously hinder their chances at a successful life.
- The first rhetorical move I picked up on in Ian Bogost’s article was the writing style that uses smaller paragraphs to organize the information as it descends toward the conclusion. This style of writing allows a reader to skim the article over with ease, and is a more practical set up for displaying the information.
“But that’s an aspirational hope. Tech-industry diversity is improving, but it’s still pretty terrible. Women, black, and Latinx representation is particularly poor. That makes diversity a necessary but insufficient solution to social equity in computing systems.”
This paragraphs only goal was to act as a transition between two longer informative paragraphs. It acts as a cushion between the two, and is made up of conclusion statements for the previous paragraph and introductory statements to open the reader up to what is next. Bogost uses this same method on a smaller scale as well. When two paragraphs involve each other they don’t need a transition paragraph, but they use a concluding/introductory statement or two at the beginning of the second paragraph. This is roughly the same idea as a transition paragraph just on a smaller scale.
I agree with you on your opinion of how important someone’s childhood can be when it comes to their growth and figuring out who they want to be as someone, especially in a society like ours. The bar graph improved my understandings on this subject matter and made it easier for me to comprehend the information too. Social media has its benefits such as providing minority groups with a helping hand to connect with each other, like you said. I do think good things can come from our advanced social media platforms in situations like these.
Your observation of the population growth compared to the “endless list of minority groups and subgroups” was important to point out because with the growing number of people in a changing world brings more differences then ever before. With that in mind I agree that social media plays a huge role in allowing people to find a community catered towards their differences. I also think that social media allows people to understand others better allowing for more tolerance and inclusion of diversity.
I ran into the same issue myself, that although all of our classmates were focusing on improving diversity within the workplace, there are so many demographics that are lacking to allow for a diverse working environment. I think social media is a blessing and a curse, as it brings together like minded people but also displays any and all of people’s expressions. Within the last month and the movements towards equality, I think social media has played an indefinitely huge role in spreading awareness and information that was not as noticed by others.
Right–transitions, by definition, point in multiple directions at once. The most effective pick up a thread of where you’re coming from, preview where you’re headed, and connect the dots to from this smaller segment to the Big Picture of the whole argument.