In what ways might the new technology celebrated by Davidson pose a challenge to the ideology of "smartness" that I-lo describes? How might the Internet help undermine a prestige-based hierarchy that...

In what ways might the new technology celebrated by Davidson pose a challenge to the ideology of "smartness" that I-lo describes? How might the Internet help undermine a prestige-based hierarchy that s111artness reinforces? lf everyone has access to high status knowledge and can use it in creative ways, what impacts might such a change have on higher education-and on social life in general? Conversely, how might Ho's research complicate Davidson's egalitarian plans because, as Ho suggests, hierarchy is deeply entrenched in higher education? If Davidson were teaching at a less prestigious university than Duke, would her iPod program have generated the same degree of controversy? Does her optimism inadvertently reflect ht:r own privileged situation within :in elite institution?