Technospatial Praxis and the Production of Cyberselves

• In Event: Cyberselves, Cyberspace, Cyberplay

Abstract

Online environments are implicitly and explicitly based in globalization processes that bring together workers, educators, students and employers from multiple socio-cultural, geographical and economic histories and with varying personal histories as well as skills and literacies in relation to digital work. I examine these in the context of digital technology use and consumption. In this chapter, I argue that, between the presences and absences of such raced bodies - produced through layered, nuanced and contradictory workings of class, interpersonal culture, literacy and language - \"race in cyberspace\" can benefit from a much more complex analysis and response than what has been pursued thus far by scholars studying race in cyberspace.

Authors

• Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University

• Melissa Altman, Bowling Green State University