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Friday, March 22, 2002
Race in Cyberspace I found this article on race in cyber-space on news dot com dot com, the part of CNET with the worst name. The author, Henry Jenkins, describes himself as a, "white liberal." Apparently a few years back he posted flyers with the thought provoking In Cyberspace, nobody knows your race unless you tell them. Do you tell? And by the end of the current article he has moved to In the end, we will need to give up any lingering fantasies of a color-blind Web and focus on building a space where we recognize, discuss and celebrate racial and cultural diversity. Along the way he tries to explain why race is important even online when nobody knows what your race is. He mentions the following example from offline society. When art museums lower economic barriers, offering free or reduced admission, they still attract mostly white upper-middle-class patrons; many lower-income and minority citizens don’t feel entitled to attend. Where museums have successfully diversified their communities, it has been through educational outreach and collaboration with minority communities. Efforts to bridge the digital divide must internalize these lessons. I would argue that whether you have an online community or traditional neighborhood, it is those people who desire personal enrichment who will go go to places - real or cyber - where they can further expand their experiences. The internet in general, the world wide web more specifically, and now blogging in particular have made the propagation of new information and new ideas easier than ever. It is a choice to go to the musem. It is a choice to surf the net. And it is a choice that is made more often by white people than by minorities. Glenn Reynolds had an excellent point the other day on the irrelevance of of cost and access to the world of computers. I suspect that Mr. Jenkins would argue that this is an issue of class, not cost. But I will side with Mr. Reynolds on this one. |
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