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Examines the impact of the Internet on social relationships and its implications for social justice.

Table of Contents

Preface
Internet or Outernet by Bosah Ebo
Class on the Net
Exposing the Great Equalizer: Demythologizing Internet Equity by Alecia Wolf
Insuring Social Justice for the New Underclass: Community Interventions to Meet the Needs of the New Poor by John G. McNutt
The Challenge of Cyberspace: Internet Access and Persons with Disabilities by Mark Borchert
Cyber-Soldiering: Race, Class, Gender, and New Media Use in the U.S. Army by Morten G. Ender and David R. Segal
How the Web Was Won: The Commercialization of Cyberspace by James L. McQuivey
Race on the Net
Challenging the Mandarins: Comparing City Characteristics and Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of the Internet 1993-1995 by John C. Pollock and Elvin Montero
Domination and Democracy in Cyberspace: Reports from the Majority Media and Ethnic/Gender Margins by Meta G. Carstarphen and Jacqueline Johnson Lambiase
Equity and Access to Computer Technology for Grades K-12 by Paulette Robinson
On the Electronic Information Frontier: Training the Information Poor in an Age of Unequal Access by Rebecca Carrier
Cybergendering
Democratizing Internet Access in the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Communities by Nadine Koch and H. Eric Schockman
Communicative Style and Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Communications by Kevin Crowston and Ericka Krammerer
Netsex: Empowerment Through Discourse by Charlene Blair
Embracing the Machine: Quilt and Quilting as Community-Building Architecture by Andrew F. Wood and Tyrone L. Adams
Index

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"The major strengths of Cyberghetto or Cybertopia are that the information can be used to support ad inspire research by students and faculty regarding the Internet and inform policymakers across the country about the technological crisis that may befall their very constituents....[T]his book conveniently packages in-depth contributions that are accessible to academics, public servants, and private industry professions."-Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

?[G]eneral readers with an interest in the social impact of the Internet should find this absorbing reading.... What the author has to say should be of particular interest to people concerned with lack of funding for education.... This book should be on the reading list for social science, political science, and communications courses. Policy makers in the communication field, and those who seek to influence them, should take the time to read it. Librarians should consider it for acquisition.?-PC Update Directory

?The major strengths of Cyberghetto or Cybertopia are that the information can be used to support ad inspire research by students and faculty regarding the Internet and inform policymakers across the country about the technological crisis that may befall their very constituents....[T]his book conveniently packages in-depth contributions that are accessible to academics, public servants, and private industry professions.?-Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

"ÝG¨eneral readers with an interest in the social impact of the Internet should find this absorbing reading.... What the author has to say should be of particular interest to people concerned with lack of funding for education.... This book should be on the reading list for social science, political science, and communications courses. Policy makers in the communication field, and those who seek to influence them, should take the time to read it. Librarians should consider it for acquisition."-PC Update Directory

"[G]eneral readers with an interest in the social impact of the Internet should find this absorbing reading.... What the author has to say should be of particular interest to people concerned with lack of funding for education.... This book should be on the reading list for social science, political science, and communications courses. Policy makers in the communication field, and those who seek to influence them, should take the time to read it. Librarians should consider it for acquisition."-PC Update Directory