cisler on Thu, 30 Apr 1998 05:32:16 +0200 (MET DST) |
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<nettime> Gurstein's comments |
[Clarification: That was a mini-digest of 3 separate messages, one of which was Mike Gurstein forwarding his own remarks from the get-real list. My apologies for the ambiguous format. -T] Andreas forwarded some well-aimed Canadian sentiments from Mike Gurstein: =1. "Technologies are not neutral... They have biases"...yup...and among =the greatest and most commonly commented upon (beyond Waikiki) bias is =language. The fact that the Internet is 85% or so English in many parts =of the world this is not something to be commented upon and then passed =over for the next incidental observation...this is fundamental to the =survival of languages and cultures and peoples. Its the subject of =emergency studies, and special commissions, and even (god forbid) =legislation... = = =2. "The net is revolutionary but not Utopian"... Yup... And one of the =most revolutionary aspects of the Net is the way in which is brings the =rest of the world into your attention space almost effortlessly. In this =the net is truly revolutionary (and subversive) most profoundly I would =say the more distant culturally and geographically is the user from the =Golden Gates... Cultural Survival Quarterly recently posted the articles from the past issue on Indigenous groups and the Internet. I did the intro to the issue, but most of the pieces are about the many challenges and struggles that other cultures are having with the Net. www.cs.org/csq/csqinternet.html (It's a single 145 kb page.) Steve Cisler - 4415 Tilbury Drive - San Jose, CA 95130 cisler@pobox.com http://home.inreach.com/cisler (408) 379 9076 --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl