Do digital artifacts have politics

digital artifacts is any  man made tool not real but digital .

Eg:- software’s , game etc.  

 So the topic is do digital artifacts have politics. We can analyses the above by taking an example. 

By politics what  we mean here is that every one who get a access to the artifact is not discriminated by any means.

Now talk a example of racists discrimination in video games.

Racism is understandably a very sensitive issue.

The world in the video game is virtual. 

You do all crimes and still get away with no punishments. 

All these are acceptable. But some one points out the racist discrimination in the video game, how to take it , can we take it as accidental error , or a planed act of the programmer.

Let us take a example.

A PC game called “Ethnic cleansing” , the game requires players to wonder through urban street and tunnels and to attack African-American Hispanic and Jewish characters.

This game also includes repeated racist images and audio content. And how are we suppose to take it as accidental error in this game.

This is not the only game ,there are many ,this is just an example.

So the people who play this game have more chances of developing a racist character. 

So when we compare this article with langdon winner article . Langdon winner argues that the bridges to beaches and recreational parks is so low that buses could not pass under them since , at that time , blacks were not rich enough to own private cars, this meant that designer without any apartheid laws, without even the appearance of impropriety , could maintain his beaches as a free of any miscegenation as if he had created racist police to enforce his edict:

“For whites only”

Hence winners conclude : not artifacts have politics , but its most peevers of all since they hide their biases under that appearance of objectivity, efficiently or mere expenditure.



Gokul
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