For this project, I was assigned a piece of technology to discuss and teach the class about. I chose to discuss autonomous vehicles, how they are becoming significantly more prominent in our society and the positives and negatives of the rise of self-driving vehicles. I have always had an interest in new and growing technology, such as artificial intelligence, as there is so much to learn and unpack from it, so learning about each of my fellow classmates' presentations was very interesting for me.
Gray Storti’s presentation about the theory of gatekeeping was extremely intriguing to me. I first heard the term “gatekeeping” referring to a song; Someone was refusing to tell me the name and artist of a song and called themselves a gatekeeper. As Gray noted in her presentation, it has turned into common slang or lingo we use in our everyday lives to describe exclusive behavior, yet I never applied it to the real world. She discusses that gatekeeping is huge in industries like Hollywood, science, finance, education, music, and even in history, all of which I am extremely surprised to hear. She defined gatekeeping as the “process of filtering information for dissemination,” which can be for publication, broadcasting, the internet, or other forms of communication. Now, gatekeeping expanded to include academics, economics, and entertainment, describing any system where power dynamic control accessibility.
Throughout her presentation, I was focused entirely due to how interesting this topic actually is. The part of her presentation that surprised me most was the story of the Library of Alexandria. It was built in the 3rd century BCE, and was known to hold all the knowledge of the lost/fantasy world. Everything that we, as people, know, teach, built, and more from our world’s history was placed in this library. It had an estimate of 400-700 thousand scrolls that explained science, philosophy, medicine, math, and astronomy. But, unfortunately, one day the entire library was burned down completely. All of this knowledge was lost forever, so quickly. There could have been answers to many of the problems that we have today in that library, yet no one will ever know. The destruction of the library is still unknown, but there have been circulating theories since. Most popularly, Julius Caesar’s forces accidentally burned down the library during a battle.
This mystery is extremely interesting, so interesting that I have done my own research on the matter since this presentation.
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