Comments on: The Mask of Altruism http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/05/17/the-mask-of-altruism/ faults | sins | abuses Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:51:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bill http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/05/17/the-mask-of-altruism/#comment-17047 Bill Fri, 20 May 2005 16:48:59 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/05/17/the-mask-of-altruism/#comment-17047 Not a single presentation relating to computers and pedagogy. We need you to bring those issues to the conference. I don't think folks here necessarily see computers as outside of the purview of the (sub)field, it's just not what they themselves are working on. Not a single presentation relating to computers and pedagogy. We need you to bring those issues to the conference. I don’t think folks here necessarily see computers as outside of the purview of the (sub)field, it’s just not what they themselves are working on.

]]> By: mike http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/05/17/the-mask-of-altruism/#comment-17046 mike Thu, 19 May 2005 23:40:30 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/05/17/the-mask-of-altruism/#comment-17046 Thanks, Bill. A question: are any folks at the Working-Class Studies Conference talking about the pedagogical applications and implications of computers? I'm curious in part because I would describe the focus of my own scholarship not as on the working class, but as on class itself as a category of difference -- and I wonder if scholars who focus on the working class (correctly) perceive computers as an aspect of privilege, and so (incorrectly) construct computers as outside their purview. More to the point: I wish there were more people who "get" class issues doing scholarly work on computers & writing. Rejection of engagement serves no purpose other than guaranteeing one has no place in the debate. Thanks, Bill. A question: are any folks at the Working-Class Studies Conference talking about the pedagogical applications and implications of computers? I’m curious in part because I would describe the focus of my own scholarship not as on the working class, but as on class itself as a category of difference — and I wonder if scholars who focus on the working class (correctly) perceive computers as an aspect of privilege, and so (incorrectly) construct computers as outside their purview.

More to the point: I wish there were more people who “get” class issues doing scholarly work on computers & writing. Rejection of engagement serves no purpose other than guaranteeing one has no place in the debate.

]]> By: Bill http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/05/17/the-mask-of-altruism/#comment-17045 Bill Thu, 19 May 2005 19:33:41 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/05/17/the-mask-of-altruism/#comment-17045 Mike, wish you were at the Working-Class Studies Conference this week, where we're talking about how to sustain the kind of forward thinking that you're advocating here. I've been thinking a lot about your sobering analyses the past few days and (as I start to prep syllabi for fall) trying to consider new pedagogical ways to use literacy and other technologies toward these ethical ends. Mike, wish you were at the Working-Class Studies Conference this week, where we’re talking about how to sustain the kind of forward thinking that you’re advocating here. I’ve been thinking a lot about your sobering analyses the past few days and (as I start to prep syllabi for fall) trying to consider new pedagogical ways to use literacy and other technologies toward these ethical ends.

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