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Monday, April 01, 2002
http://www.techreview.com/articles/jenkins0402.asp Cyberspace and Race Henry Jenkins The color-blind Web: a techno-utopia, or a fantasy to assuage liberal guilt? "In Cyberspace, nobody knows your race unless you tell them. Do you tell?” Several years ago, I put this slogan on a poster advertising an MIT-hosted public forum about race and digital space. The resulting controversy was an eyeopener. Like many white liberals, I had viewed the absence of explicit racial markers in cyberspace with some optimism—seeing the emerging “virtual communities” as perhaps our best hope ever of achieving a truly color-blind society. But many of the forum’s minority participants—both panelists and audience members—didn’t experience cyberspace as a place where nobody cared about race....
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