Overview
Answer these questions in 2-4 sentences each after reading Tarleton Gillespie's "The Stories Digital Tools Tell"
1. Gillespie argues that no technology is politically neutral. Why is it difficult to find the politics in technologies?
2. Where can we find evidence of the intended uses and world views of digital technologies?
3. What are “affordances”? How do they shape the social practices of new technologies?
4. What is the role of metaphors in our experience of digital tools?
5. What do digital technologies do to the concept of the “author”?