According to the Rhetoric for Radicals social norms are patterns of interaction geared towards adapting people to a life of a certain patterns and routines through pattern manipulation. For example, according to society, it is the women's duty to bear children and care for the home in addition to pursuing personal endeavors. This has been constituted as a social norm that restricts women's life choices. In like manner, it makes it possible to say that technology today might help us build a new inclusive social norm due to the fact that it changes and enhances our personal world of communicating by changing our of human communication using technology and social media. People use different forms of media daily to convey their innermost feelings and daily dwellings which makes it easy to say that social norms have been determined as socially construed rather than inherently given. Therefore, it has become vital that people work towards the norms proven to be socially just and empowering rather than that of a detriment.
Despite how easy of a notion this might sound, media tends to ignore or falsify different movements of action due to given rises of anti-authoritarian activism which can cause distort and divide society to go against governmental or civilian powers. If the media or government feels as though they are creating a sense of rebellion and anti society behaviors than it makes it easy to falsify information to secure themselves. In rhetoric for radicals there are five contemporary challenges faced daily. The five contemporary challenges current activists face are intercultural exchanges, intercultural communications, culture specific rhetoric’s, translation issues and creating transnational rhetoric’s. These five challenges allows us to address and confront issues of diversity and inclusion in the sense that racial biases and slurs aren't a negotiating factor and neither is the ability to adapt to people of different ethnic backgrounds. Technololgy will definitely bridge these gaps between cultures and people because provides a intercultural sensitivity within social norms.
Despite how easy of a notion this might sound, media tends to ignore or falsify different movements of action due to given rises of anti-authoritarian activism which can cause distort and divide society to go against governmental or civilian powers. If the media or government feels as though they are creating a sense of rebellion and anti society behaviors than it makes it easy to falsify information to secure themselves. In rhetoric for radicals there are five contemporary challenges faced daily. The five contemporary challenges current activists face are intercultural exchanges, intercultural communications, culture specific rhetoric’s, translation issues and creating transnational rhetoric’s. These five challenges allows us to address and confront issues of diversity and inclusion in the sense that racial biases and slurs aren't a negotiating factor and neither is the ability to adapt to people of different ethnic backgrounds. Technololgy will definitely bridge these gaps between cultures and people because provides a intercultural sensitivity within social norms.
Hi Raven, I as well enjoyed reading your post and definitely agree with the example you provided on a social norm in which woman take on the responsibilities for being the care provider among the household and still taking care of own personal responsibilities. I also agree that the way we communicate through the use of technology is now becoming a social norm the more it advances and continues to be used. I never realized how true your statement was on how it is easy for the government and media to falsify information to secure themselves, because we can all agree the government always overrules everything in the end.
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