Stereotypes and Technology

STEREOTYPES & TECHNOLOGY

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In the contemporary world, technology plays an important role, and the people who are professionals in that field are seen as having specific unique characteristics that are different from others. The students, especially from the high schools, have an attitude towards the people who are mostly involved with computers as having different capabilities which are superior to the others. The stereotype makes a person to have a preset mind on a different issue or a strange person even before having an interaction with it or the person.  These assumptions and the beliefs towards the line of technology is what form the stereotype towards the same. These stereotypes might be correct or might be wrong and this depends on how they manifest themselves to the people that are in the field. Depending on what is observed in reality, one can be able to support his/her belief or dispute it. In this essay, the different stereotypes that are directed towards the field of technology are discussed and how they make one solidify his/ her beliefs on the same issue, or they make one have a different mindset altogether towards the same (Zhang et al. 2009).

The professionals that are in the field of the computers are believed to have a character that is different from the other people regarding socialization. An example is that they are said not to be very social as they spend most of their times in the computers (Shields et al. 2017). Most of the students believe that the people working with the computers spend most of the times working on the programming of the computers and this is the reason why their social life is not as good as the others (Cheng et al. 2016).

Another notion is that the computers experts and the engineers are considered to be the thin people wearing glasses. They are said not to be able to have bigger bodies since the continuous focus at the computers makes them develop some problems with their eyesight and therefore wearing the glasses or simply they will wear the glasses to prevent the eyesight damage. The people are also said to be highly intelligent as working with the computers is considered to be complicated, and the only people who will be able to work with them must be smart in the head. This way they believe that not everyone will be able to work with the computers and therefore it is reserved to various types of people who are intelligent (Cheng et al. 2016).

 Women are also believed not to prosper in the field of technology, and it is viewed as the field of men. This is because it is considered to be a tough field and the men are the ones known to be tough while the women are viewed not to be equal to the task. This has made most of the women to keep away from the field and leave it to the men (Cheng et al. 2016).

The article supported some of the stereotypes, and this reaffirmed my assumption towards the same. One of them is the female stereotyping on the field of the technology where the female stereotyping towards the courses and careers on the field technology is still evident and still holds due to lack of role models in the same field (Shields et al. 2017). The lecturers that are teaching the computer courses are men, and therefore the ladies do not have a female figure to act as the role model. Those people working on the computers are mostly men, and this also makes the ladies use this as the evidence that truly the field is not meant for them (Cheng et al. 2016).

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