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

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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 Journal of American Culture (1995).

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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.

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The chapters in this volume examine the issue of social justice on the Internet by using a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.

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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