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Homework 1/28/08
By hillarh | January 29, 2008
The artilces that I read are “Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic” by Elizabeth Teare and “Lest We Think the Revolution Is a Revolution: Images of Technology and the Nature of Change” by Cynthia L. Selfe. Although these articles are written three years apart, 1999-2002, both of them have similar connections between them as they both clearly agree on the same topic of the different uses on technology. When looking closely at both of the articles, one can see how they describe the use of technology and how it affects the American culture in a variety of different ways. Both articles are very strong as they effectively have their topic and hit on not only how technology in America is good but how it is bad as well. One way that these authors can do this so successfully is by their wonderful use of examples and their clearly stated thesis statements. Selfe’s thesis is clearly stated and recognized by the reader because her word choices makes it easy to identify, which is, “This chapter will attempt to illustrate the ways in which change is modulated and complicated by forces of stasis by focusing attention on a series of images that come from commercial advertisements about technology” (785). Teare has a clear thesis too as she says she, “will argue that the stories the books tell, as well as the stories we’re telling about them, enact both our fantasies and our fears of children’s literature and publishing in the context of the twenty-first century commercial and technological culture” (801). It is easy to see how, when synthesizing, these two articles clearly relate.
Works Cited
Teare, Elizabeth. “Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic.” The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literacy Phenomenon 2002. Rpt. in From Inquiry to Academic Writing. Ed. Stuert Green and April Lidinsky. New York: Bedord, 2008. 800-14.
Selfe, Cynthia L. “Lest We Think the Revolution Is a Revolution: Images of Technology and the Nature of Change.” Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies 1999. Rpt. in From Inquiry to Academic Writing. Ed. Stuert Green and April Lidinsky. New York: Bedord, 2008. 783-800.
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