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
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
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