Week 6 Tutorial Presentation

This is my presentation outline.

In “Ruminations on Cyber-Race”, Jerry Kang discusses the race in cyber space and explores how cyberspace construct the race by computer code.

What is Race?
It is a model of racial mechanism that draws from the social cognition. People map the other race associated with particular meaning.
1. racial categories
2. senses
3. cognitive beliefs and reaction

How cyber space create race?
- various forms of communication
- People can communicate with other at great distance
- become a group of people
- usually share their common interest and experience

--> It makes people both more and less interaction than real life
--> difficult to stop the race in cyberspace

text is still the main cyber interaction on the Internet because less of the disclosure of the face to face interaction
-> depict the racial mapping

Integration of race by increased social contact
- Virtual space becomes a convenient platform to communicate, regardless known or unknown people
- specifically popular for those racial and ethnic minorities
- Increased social contact is not enough to resist race
- influenced by mass media rather than direct experience
- stereotype is created

Although it is hardly to gather all in the same race because they have different interests and categories, besides race. However, race can be decreasing through direct experience, folk, cooperation.

Transmutation
- Cyber passing destabilized the racial categories. People pretend the other race would risk the stereotype.
- The audience would hold the stereotype as well as the performer holds the same stereotype.
- reinforce the racial meaning because the audience directly experiences authentication of race.

Racial zone can be occurred in virtual world according to different environments and spaces. He shows that marketplaces can blanket the race by doing economic transaction through cyberspace and development of user interfaces with more social interaction.

Jerry criticize the cyberspace with Cass Sunstein’s argument who is one of the skeptic fears that cyberspace created a negative social force. Sunstein stated Cyberspace makes people stay in house and seldom go out. And, the people should think positive to achieve their imagining futures.