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

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.

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).