Mythinformation

After a long week of midterms I could not focus myself to follow my reading! I had to re-read the reading several times over to pick out the main points of the article. However, I did find three things that were new pieces of information to me.

Winner talks about using the metaphor 'revolution' to describe and celebrate the coming of computerization. Winner disagrees that this is a reasonable metaphor, "Unfortunately this is not the case". He goes on to discuss how books, articles, and media specials aimed at a popular audience are usually content to depict the dazzling magnitude of technical innovations and social effects (589). He questions this metaphor further by making several thought provoking statements such as "One might suppose, for example, that a revolution of this type would involve a significant shift in the locus of power, after all, that is exactly what one expects in revolutions of a political kind" (589).

Another interesting point he discusses is his concern for the political meaning of revolution, "My concern for the political meaning of revolution in this setting may seem somewhat misleading, even perverse" (590). He talks about other technical revolutions such as the industrial revolution to bring up his point.

I found his discussion on information and ideology interesting as I am currently studying ideologies in another online class I'm taking.Winner discusses how "mythinformation is noteworthy as an expressive contemporary ideology" (595)