Before
After
The image I chose to remix was accompanied by an article titled, “Apple
Makes Girls Smarter: How early Computer Use Among Girls Will Close Technological
Gender Gap”. In the photo are three young girls surrounding a MacBook computer while
looking completely engaged like they are doing homework. What the article
argues is basically that an Apple computer and access to the internet can help
the young generation stay interested in the computer science field as well as
make them smarter, which equals to better pay in the future. I wanted to
exaggerate this idea and make it even more bold. I used the title of the
article on the computer which reads, “Apple makes girls smarter” and added the
flashing light bulb sticker to show that this technology inspires and motivates
the mind. I wanted to demonstration that the young girls were mesmerized and
hypnotized by the piece of technology, therefore I added the repeated spiraled
circular shape in the background. The girls still have the same expressions as
in the picture, looking engaged. My idea was to transform this into an
advertisement you would see posted on the train or a sign on the street. I
added the finger pointing to the words that read “Your #1 Choice to Success”
and at the top right it says “Buy Now” like most advertised products do. And to
finish it off, each young girl has a prediction of what they will become in the
future written by them, all due to the access of this technology. My
over-all point is that technology has weakened the roles of our girls and
women. What I get out of the article I read is that a girl cannot learn simply
with school or “play with toys that build spatial reasoning skills” like the
boys can, at least not in this day and age. {Marie wilda} It’s as if their
minds can’t develop without some technological help.
