Over the past fifteen years, the Internet has characterized itself as an active medium, which requires a high skill of literacy to perform navigations on the web efficiently. Learning from it requires high user control and interactivity which results into “hypertexuality”, or the ability to follow from one link to another. In “Socioeconomic Disparities in Fatalistic Beliefs About Cancer Prevention and the Internet”, Chul-joo Lee discusses the importance of “emerging information and communication technologies that could thus empower low-SES (socioeconomic status) cancer patients by increasing knowledge and social support” (Lee 974). From the disease prevention agency’s 2011 poll study, 96% of families have agreed that the knowledge of cancer through media would help them cope with the case of cancer that they are dealing with.…show more content… Likewise, some believe that the medical agency is milking the pockets of the rich and poor with chemotherapy when it only gives remission to 25-50% of patients. Lee gives a fervent documentation of why we should put information about the prevention of cancer on the internet for low-socioeconomic individuals, but I must disagree, in order to better disperse the information, it should be taught in a classroom to guide the knowledge of medical terminology and research done to prevent cancer. In order to settle the dispute, I will be using a Rogerian format to identify common claims between Chul-joo Lee and I in order to find common ground at which we can agree
