Friday, 27 March 2009

The person who threatens the notion of Native/Immigrant...

Again i think my mum is The person who threatens the notion of Native/Immigrant.She's 47, but despite her age, is fairly good with all things Web 2.0.
However she hasn't always worked with computer, its only since we have needed them for homework etc that she has got into using one, she has followed developments in all office-based programmes She prefers editing documents on screen to printing them out, understands emails, email lists, blogs, social networking sites, put still will not become a member of one because she thinks she is "too old" which i think is untrue as social networking sites are for all ages!
However good my mum maybe with computers she still cancels it out as she sends letter instead of emails etc

1 comment:

  1. Yes, the technologicsl balance is a slippery one isn't it? Your mum being both the youngest 'immigrant' you know and yet pretty handy with many 'new media' systems shows how one person's signifiers of 'nativeness' might be another's signs of 'iimigrant' status.

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