Questions for the Blackmon (2007) reading: 8. Why should we be concerned with issues of race, sex, ethnic, or class in online spaces?

Questions for the Blackmon (2007) reading: 7. What does Blackmon (2007) mean by historical access and how can historical access influence current participation in online spaces or with new media technologies?

Questions for the Blackmon (2007) reading: 6. Have we run into materials that present racist sentiments? If so, how did we come across those materials? How can those materials limit access to the Internet and for who?

Questions for the Blackmon (2007) reading: 5. Consider Blackmon’s (2007) argument that “the raceless majority is not tied to an actual declaration of whiteness, but rather to the fact that in the absence of a specific race, White is considered the ‘default’” (156)? In our experience online how are we faced with our race or what situations prompt us to think about our race?

Questions for the Blackmon (2007) reading: 4. How are we represented on the basis of our racial, sexual, ethnic, or socioeconomic categories represented through media such as television, magazines, books, and on the World Wide Web? How are the representations similar or different?

Questions for the Blackmon (2007) reading: 3. Blackmon notes author Victor Villanueva’s argument that the “loss of one culture, through an actual lack of fictive kinship (in this case on the Internet), while not being fully integrated into another that Villanueva calls being ‘tonto’ in both culture” (Blackmon, 2007, 154). What does Blackmon and Villanueva mean by “being ‘tonto’”?

Questions for the Blackmon (2007) reading: 2. According to Blackmon (2007), what is a “cyber human” and why is it a negative entity when considering racial, sexual, ethnic, or socioeconomic communities?

Questions for the Blackmon (2007) reading: 1. What are 4 areas of access posed by Blackmon? Why are each of these areas necessary for computer literacy?