Cyberspace

Cyberspace - This term is used in different contexts in each of the readings. Cyberspace to McPherson meant the Internet, particularly websites. Her article mainly dealt with web sites finding ways around race, but were really espousing whiteness. Nakamura's article dealt with cyberspace as more then the internet, but the flow of media as well as she mentioned images which are developed in cyberspaec and then put into magazines by networking companies. Her article dealt with cyberspace in a media context as her article stressed how networking companies use ads to "bring people together" when really they set them apart as different by using cliche images. Kolko uses cyberspace in relating to interactions within it and interaction with it. She mainly talked aobut how race has become undefined in interacting with cyberspace and therefore the social construct of it becomes a default white and becomes a part of the program designer's ideology. Although cyberspace was used differently in each article, all three of them used cyberspace to illustrate if race is ignored or undefined, it becomes a default white race.