DW 2b.

Question: Now that you have selected at least one website, you'll want to compare the work that you did in DW 2a to at least one of the readings/websites we've read in class. Do they represent AAVE similarly or differently in these spaces? In what ways?
For this DW 2b assignment, I chose to compare the website (www.bet.com) with Adam J. Banks’s “Talking Black Technology Use Seriously”. In Adam Banks’s work, he says, “The implication of this point is that the wide body of research in composition that fails to take into account the power of these traditions and continues to view Black student writers as less prepared than others, merely “writing like they talk”, needs to be questioned and ultimately repudiated as antithetical to both the field’s stated goals of fostering inclusion in writing instruction and the actual practice of writers”. In those long sentences, Adam Banks is saying that people generalize Black students to write less professional than students in other color. On the website that I used for DW 2a, which was BET’s website, I found that many users on the websites write as they talk. By using AAVE structured sentences to provide their opinions about the issues or news about hip-hop/pop musicians, I could see that why Adam Banks is saying that people generalize Black students’ writing ability less professional than other students. When I was in the BET website to listen how users talk through how they typed their opinions, it wasn’t necessarily English language that I would hear from professors or announcers in the news on TV. Some of examples of that was this one user talks about how he thinks about Diddy. “LOL!! “Last train to Paris” Stop on Block Ent today and it was BIG!!! I told ya that He do it BIG!! LOL!! Thanks BET networks for the Show today!”. By reading this comment made by the username (“south28”) on the BET website. I thought that this person would always write as he talks. After reading Adam Banks’s work and this specific comment on the BET websites, I couldn’t say to myself enough that it represents a great example of how these represent AAVE similarly and how this comment supports Adam Banks’s statement very efficiently.
Also, Adam Banks is saying something about how on African American’s websites, people usually have the right to their own language. The specific quote about that is stated as, “Common to almost all of these sites is the African American oral tradition-… Because these spaces exist outside of the official gaze of schools, workplaces, and governments, those who became part of them truly do have the right to their own language.” In these sentences, Adam Banks is saying that people who become part of those websites, such as BET or others like being known as mostly used by African Americans, have right to their own language. By commenting one’s opinion with one’s own language seems to be acceptable on BET websites. No one clearly said anything to user “south28”, whom I talked about earlier on this assignment.
So, I guess that this also supports Adam Banks’s statement about people have right to their own language on those common sites. So, I think that the BET websites represent AAVE somewhat similarly compared to how Adam Banks represents AAVE being used in online spaces on his work.