Oliver Moran wrote: >Oh, my goodness! If this is why anyone believes that Gandhi's struggle was >met with resistance and brutality by colonialism, you're sadly missing the >point of human politics and the nature of society, communication and >history. > > *confused look* - huh? Where did this come from?
>Hats off the the guys at Telecom Italia for pulling our heart strings but >while communication may be key to ending global inequity, communication >requires that people listen, understand and are willing to accommodate, not >that it occurs on one media or another. This is far more complex that any >circumstance of technology. Why should crowds fill Red Square, Times Square, >tune-in in Roman plazas, meeting rooms at Whitehall, villages in rural Asia >and southern Africa just because of ICT? Did they not have newspapers, radio >and newsreels at the time of Gandhi but was he still not considered a kin to >a terrorist - no matter how much, in hindsight, that we would all plea that >he was a man of non-violence? How many of you have visited the Al Jazeera >website lately? > > You know, I take issue with Gandhi ever being viewed as a terrorist. There was a man who strictly advocated non-violence, who never lifted his hand and helped define 20th century *peaceful* protest. To even consider that Gandhi was ever considered a terrorist is something that I would find insulting if I didn't decide to forego insult. He most definitely was considered a pain in the posterior to quite a few, including some of his own countrymen, but equating him to a *terrorist* is simply ridiculous. As far as Al Jazeera and so on - I won't pretend to understand the varying levels of abstraction in the media where West meets Middle East. But I would most certainly love to read Gandhi's weblog, if he had one. >Imagining the 'digital' divide solely as a matter of access to technology is >to poorly estimate the importance of socio-political and economic relations >and to incredibly misrepresent the significance of ICT. Media verbiage of >this kind are what mask real causes of societal inequity and stints >discussion of how to use ICT meaningfully for social change. > > *confused look* - huh? Where did this come from? Honestly, I feel like I'm missing a really big part of the conversation here. Nobody here has said anything that you appear to be responding to; could you please clarify? What was this all in response to? Oddly enough, Gandhi's speech was taken slightly out of context for the purpose of the advertisement. The original speech is here: http://www.gandhiserve.org/information/listen_to_gandhi/lec_2_iarc/lec_2_iarc.html -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
