CMNS 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Racism, Digital Divide, New Media
16 Jul 2016
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Cybertypes (race relationship to the internet, online reflects the offline world) Identity tourism ( nobody knows you"re a dog you can build an identity online, your identity effects how you"re perceived: racial formation. Process by which racial categories are created, transformed, and destroyed. Digital divide, nature of social networks impact on people: access. New media environment is changing from old media modes to hyperlinked global media and cmns networks. Biotechnology & genomics: internet lead to people being able to find their biology. Cultural code to computer code: camera had a hard time capturing african american"s movements basically because it was constructed through a non-black perspective. Technology is built through the quality for those who build it. Gender: biology, cultural norms (being disciplined into roles) Socialist perspectives: relationship between technology and work, labor to service economy, computers and automation: industries that women don"t necessarily take part in, design for men embeds gender into the technology.
