Websites & Neurodiversity

This will probably be a short entry since we didn't have an example post for this week...

For this week's reading, the two chapters' authors each talked about their own, respective, websites that contributed to the Neurodiversity movement. Although the corresponding class lecture focused on the "old" technologies that were mentioned in these chapters, I saw more technology that still exists than those that are no longer in use. To be honest, when asked the question, I was at first, initially, confused because it felt like (for the first time reading) I didn't come across any technologies no longer in use. But, moving on... The purpose of the reading, according to the professor, was to show how technology doesn't do activist work on its own. It has constraints and affordances that activists must use and obey to do their work. Now, this lesson seems odd to me because I thought that was the point of the social media genre. I, personally, thought that the point of the chapters was to showcase how websites can be utilized to do activist work, especially in a world that seems to have more moreso towards social media.

Instead of an example blog post, we worked on our timelines. Now, I'm a little upset because I felt I hadn't utilized my time in the best way. The websites that I used to gather women and their accomplishments were barely used in my actual timeline. That is because these sites didn't have dates so I had to turn to Wikipedia that also had the same information (so if anything the websites could be used to be fact checked). But still... if only I had realized this sooner, then I could have gotten more done with my draft.