Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet

by Bosah Ebo

Overview

Computer-mediated communication and cyberculture are dramatically changing the nature of social relationships. Whether cyberspace will simply retain vestiges of traditional communities with hierarchical social links and class-structured relationships or create new egalitarian social networks remains an open question. The chapters in this volume examine the issue of social justice on the Internet by using a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.

Political scientists, sociologists, and communications and information systems scholars address issues of race, class, and gender on the Internet in chapters that do not assume any specialized training in computer technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275959937
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/28/1998
Series:	Literary Criticism in Perspective (Hardcover)
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

BOSAH EBO is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Rider University, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He teaches and writes on international communication, communication ethics, and media and popular culture. His publications include: Media Diplomacy and Foreign Policy: Toward a Theoretical Framework, in News Media and Foreign Relations, and War as Popular Culture: the Gulf Conflict and the Technology of Illusionary Entertainment, in the Jourbanal of American Culture (1995).

Table of Contents

Preface
Internet or Outernet by Bosah Ebo
Class on the Net
Exposing the Great Equalizer: Demythologizing Internet Equity by Alecia Wolf
Insuring Social Justice for the New Underclass: Community Interventions to Meet the Needs of the New Poor by John G. McNutt
The Challenge of Cyberspace: Internet Access and Persons with Disabilities by Mark Borchert
Cyber-Soldiering: Race, Class, Gender, and New Media Use in the U.S. Army by Morten G. Ender and David R. Segal
How the Web Was Won: The Commercialization of Cyberspace by James L. McQuivey
Race on the Net
Challenging the Mandarins: Comparing City Characteristics and Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of the Internet 1993-1995 by John C. Pollock and Elvin Montero
Domination and Democracy in Cyberspace: Reports from the Majority Media and Ethnic/Gender Margins by Meta G. Carstarphen and Jacqueline Johnson Lambiase
Equity and Access to Computer Technology for Grades K-12 by Paulette Robinson
On the Electronic Information Frontier: Training the Information Poor in an Age of Unequal Access by Rebecca Carrier
Cybergendering
Democratizing Internet Access in the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Communities by Nadine Koch and H. Eric Schockman
Communicative Style and Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Communications by Kevin Crowston and Ericka Krammerer
Netsex: Empowerment Through Discourse by Charlene Blair
Embracing the Machine: Quilt and Quilting as Community-Building Architecture by Andrew F. Wood and Tyrone L. Adams
Index

Editorial Reviews

Political scientists, sociologists, and communication and information scholars explore the implications of the Internet for social justice. Among the issues they address are whether electronic networks will accommodate marginal constituencies within the notions of economic, social, and political empowerment; the potential of the new cyberculture to encompass the cultural forms of marginal constituencies; and how the commercial imperatives of the Internet redefine the relationship between elite and marginal constituencies in terms of production and access to knowledge. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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