damn furriners (Re: <nettime> New Economy gets ironic)

[kelley]

At 07:03 AM 1/2/01 +1100, Joanna Sheldon wrote:


>At 05:38 02-01-01, you wrote:
>>New Economy gets ironic twist amid tech slide
>>Saturday December 30 10:21 PM ET
>>By Lisa Baertlein
>>
>><...>
>
>Thanks for that, Kelley.
>
>I found a good piece on satirewire:
>
>AMERICANS ANNOYED BY "ALL THIS INTERNATIONAL SHIT" ON INTERNET
>Web's Increasingly Worldly Flavor Threatens Americans' Worldview
>
>http://www.satirewire.com/news/0010/international.shtml
>
>Worth a look.
>
>cheers,
>Joanna


i thought it was just me, but yeah, i see some backlash going on here, 
something the brave new world/economy rah rah never considered when they 
said the Internet would break down all those artificial social categories 
like race, gender, age.   back when they were in heavy talks about what was 
then frequently called "The Information Superhighway", my mentor tried to 
get me to dump my diss plans for studying the local public convos about how 
to make the net accessible.  i did some fieldwork before i put my foot down 
and said "no, i'm not going in that direction..."  so much rah rah back 
then about how no one would know who anyone else was, yadda....  my 
reaction then was, "and why exactly is that a good thing?  they will just 
presume everyone else is like them --male, white, 25 (with a 12 
incher!)."   one of the more absurd, least thought out claims..

oh and thought you'd enjoy this, somewhat related.

http//www.cheswick.com/ches/projects/antipodes.html