ISBN:
0275959937
,
9780275959937
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 240 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Non-Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Cyberghetto or Cybertopia? : Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Internet Social aspects
;
Minorities Social conditions
;
Cyberspace Social aspects
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; 1. Internet or Outernet?; Part I: Class on the Net; 2. Exposing the Great Equalizer: Demythologizing Internet Equity; 3. Ensuring Social Justice for the New Underclass: Community Interventions to Meet the Needs of the New Poor; 4. The Challenge of Cyberspace: Internet Access and Persons with Disabilities; 5. Cyber-Soldiering: Race, Class, Gender, and New Media Use in the U.S. Army; 6. How the Web Was Won: The Commercialization of Cyberspace; Part II: Race on the Net
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Challenging the Mandarins: Comparing City Characteristics and Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of the Internet, 1993-958. Domination and Democracy in Cyberspace: Reports from the Majority Media and Ethnic/Gender Margins; 9. Equity and Access to Computer Technology for Grades K-12; 10. On the Electronic Information Frontier: Training the Information-Poor in an Age of Unequal Access; Part III: Cybergendering; 11. Democratizing Internet Access in the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Communities; 12. Communicative Style and Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Communications
Description / Table of Contents:
13. Netsex: Empowerment Through Discourse14. Embracing the Machine: Quilt and Quilting as Community-Building Architecture; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; About the Editor and Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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