A Belief in Humanity is a Belief in Colored Men
Using Culture to Span the Digital Divide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12448917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | André Brock (0000-0001-6084-9995, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 357-374 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1083-6101 • E-ISSN: 1083-6101 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.tb00317.x |
| OpenAlex | W2047154474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 32 |
Building on Harrison and Zappen’s (2003) contention that technologies are infused with the values and social goals of their creators, I argue that Web content reproduces existing norms, rules, and power relations, some of which may prove inimical to Black identity, culture, and information needs. To explore this claim, I construct a culture-specific framework based on W. E. B. DuBois’ analysis of race and racism in the United States, that is then used as an evaluation schema for web content in the form of images, links, and text on mainstream Web sites vis-a-vis Africana.com. The results of the analysis uncover basic cultural differences in the design of and responses to mainstream and African-American sites
Colored · Humanity · Sociology · Span (engineering · Structural engineering · Theology · Anthropology · Digital Communication and Language · Engineering · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
The contemporary US digital divide
An African American Weblog Community’s Reading of Aids in Black America
Policing the Digital Divide
Urban Internet myths and Realities
Visual Expressions of Black Identity
Race and racism in Internet Studies
Online HIV prevention information
Government information
Doing Web history with the Internet Archive
Staking Territory in the “World White Web”
Cell phone disconnection disrupts access to healthcare and health resources
Spanish Content on Hospital Websites
Take Me Back
Arab Americans’ Motives for Using the Internet as a Functional Media Alternative and Their Perceptions of U.S. Public Opinion
I want to be a bridge”? The digital identity positioning of transnational bloggers on Chinese social media platforms
Black Spaces/White Spaces
A Genealogy of Critical Race and Digital Studies
My Brain Database Doesn't See Skin Color
Doing 'Race' on the Internet
Cybertypes
Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
Playing in the dark
Thinking the Internet
Racial Identity and Media Orientation
Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide
Second-Level Digital Divide
The internet for empowerment of minority and marginalized users
Theorizing Cyberspace
The Role of the Habitus in Shaping Discourses about the Digital Divide
The Evolution of the Digital Divide
Methodological and Theoretical Frameworks for the Design of Community Information Systems
Social Access to the Internet
Cyberspace As American Culture
A Gendered Perspective on Access to the Information Infrastructure
The Rhetorical Dynamics of Gender Harassment On-Line
Apart from technology
Culture
From Polis to Agora
Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
Reconsidering Political and Popular Understandings of the Digital Divide
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |