Re: Email Stalking on CNN
Jeff Davis <eagle@deeptht.armory.com> said:
You might pass this information on to CNN in Atlanta.
I think that there's an aspect to this that people are missing. I've been told that there's a big flame/discussion happening on WISEnet (Women In Science and Engineering mailing list) about a recent article in Newsweek which portrays women on the Internet as being intimidated by the technology and the net traffic, going so far as to show pictures of women at their pink computers. People on the mailing list are upset over the underlying message of the article that the net is technological and male and no place for a poor helpless unscientific woman. The CNN report seems to have the same message. It doesn't matter to them that there exists technology to prevent "e-mail stalking", whatever that is. The whole story doesn't match most people's experience of e-mail, anyway. The point is not to present facts, but to perpetuate the culture that relies on CNN for information rather than wider and more free alternatives represented by the Internet. I admit that I did not see the report, and I am not questioning the reporter's intentions or objectivity. This is a comment about the broader messages that make the commercial news media worthy of funding by corporate and governmental powers. The relevance to cypherpunks goes beyond the fact that anonymous remailers can prevent "e-mail stalking". It has to do with what is newsworthy when information is set free. -- sidney markowitz <sidney@apple.com>
Science and Engineering mailing list) about a recent article in Newsweek which portrays women on the Internet as being intimidated by the technology and the net traffic, going so far as to show pictures of women at their
Of course this controversy would exist among women on the net, because women who _are_ on the net aren't intimidated by the technology. As a portrait of people who _aren't_ on the net, it would be fairly accurate, for both men and women. Mark /----------------------------------\ | Mark Carter | | carterm@spartan.ac.brocku.ca | | PGP key available by finger. | \----------------------------------/
Mark Carter quoted a previous post:
Science and Engineering mailing list) about a recent article in Newsweek which portrays women on the Internet as being intimidated by the technology and the net traffic, going so far as to show pictures of women at their
And responded with:
Of course this controversy would exist among women on the net, because women who _are_ on the net aren't intimidated by the technology.
As a portrait of people who _aren't_ on the net, it would be fairly accurate, for both men and women.
Mark
Based on what evidence Mark? That article was based almost entirely on opinions, and on a survey conducted regarding people "dreaming up their ideal machine". Based on that kind of flimsy, anecdotal evidence you would say the portrayal of men, women and computer usage was an accurate one? I hope to God you're not a scientist..... because with proof like that, you'd never get anything done. Do you still believe in the tooth fairy Mr. Carter? People said he/she exists too.. -- Julie _____________________________________________________________________________ Julie M. Albright Ph.D Student/ Net Scholar Department of Sociology University of Southern California albright@usc.edu
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