"They say" on Selfes Essay

I find that in the essay of "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution" by Cynthia L. Selfe. I take the interpretation of this essay as Selfe taking a major look at how technologuy is changing in societys lives rtoday, and also how the roles of technogy are looked sat as aspects of men and women. My interpretation, is that the essay starts out talking about how we are starting to get connected to the internet, and it latter shows on how certain people are not connected, and such roles are females position in technology, and also mens roles in the work world. One of the claims that I will focus on is on P. 315 3rd paragraph down, says "In these ads, we see reflected the roles that our culture can imagine women playing in relation to technology. And they are familiar roles-the seductress, the beauty, the mother.." (Selfe) As I see this claim, it is fully supporting how the market for technology is having womens sexuality linking to technology, and used to sell products. Following right afyter, Selfe says "all relationships ratified by our historical experience, easily accessible to our collective imagination, and informed by traditionalsocial values." (selfe)315-316. As following for supporting evidence, I would have to say i am imagining Selfe taking a look at the big picture, and overall finding out that the video and media text plays directly into our brains, and is a repitition that we are so afraid to change (roles of men and womne in technology) that we keep on reproducing the same old stuff, time and time again.
Also, earlier on on page 298, Selfe says, "Instead, Americans are the canny and sophisticated minds behind the text, behind the image, behind the technology." (Selfe) 298-299.
I am understanding her point of view that we are the future, and through these ads and video texts, I can see that it is not only media alone creating alll of this, we the people are obviously the masterminds, using computers and media to our advantage. On page 298 before the quoute staed above, Selfe explains, "Americans, in these four ads, you'll notice, go almost unrepresented in terms of images." (Selfe) I forgot to expain, that throughout this essay, there has been plenty of video text. And in this section, the video text is showing people from different cultures and different countries expressing themselves. I am getting the interpretation that Selfe is saying that the world needs softweare in the images, but why are use Americans not represaented in any of the photos? Why don't we have our own photos of our culture? We are the funding for our countries technology, and overall, we should have our own representation. The question is, even if we do have a representation of Americans and technolgy as it is running today, is it a good one, or are we forced rto have a bad representastion due to media coverge. Ponder onthat.