Domination and Democracy in Cyberspace: Reports from the Majority Media and Ethnic/Gender Margins

Cyberghetto or Cybertopia? Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet, Ed: Bosah Ebo. Westport: Praeger, 1998

17 Pages Posted: 8 Sep 2012

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Meta G. Carstarphen

University of Oklahoma

Jacqueline Lambiase

Schleffer School of Journalism

Date Written: March 7, 1998

Abstract

Mapping the terrain in cyberspace is at once an ambiguous and contradictory idea. It is contradictory because the very nature of the Internet in all of its various permutations defies all typical and traditional spatial and categorical thinking. Entering the stage in cyberspace, to borrow from Kenneth Burke's conceptual ideal of situational language placement, is not a fixed geography or even a fixed time period. The future of the Internet, and its promise as a barrier-free medium, must rest upon on how we characterize its essential nature.

Keywords: Internet, race, gender, rhetoric, Kenneth Burke, democracy

Suggested Citation

Carstarphen, Meta G. and Lambiase, Jacqueline, Domination and Democracy in Cyberspace: Reports from the Majority Media and Ethnic/Gender Margins (March 7, 1998). Cyberghetto or Cybertopia? Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet, Ed: Bosah Ebo. Westport: Praeger, 1998, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2143136

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Jacqueline Lambiase

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