People like to think of the internet as a race-less space, but Gonzalez argues that race relations and tensions are present throughout online media. She references artists who do work based on this concept.
Quotes-
"...then might it be possible to undo the power of race discourse as an oppressive regime by decoupling it from vision or the visible? Or, alternately, might it be that visual culture is the very place where contemporary race discourse might be most powerfully critiqued and transformed?" - 38
"Race is always an embodied discourse that cars on and through living human beings at the level of corporeal practices, movements, features, and gases, ultimately constructing and deconstructing the psychological states of individual subjects." - 41
"Online passing is never free from the social, historical, linguistic, and psychological constraints and conditions that also shape racial discourse offline. The invisibility of 'real' bodies cannot, alone, Produce a racially neutral space or even racially neutral subjects." - 42
"Racial schemas work to hide or mask not only individuals as individuals but also their real and imagined historical conditions." - 59
A few of my notes from the reading-
- She talked about the internet freeing up our encounters between each other, because we are invisible, and while there can be good from this there is also bad. Cyberbullying is a real problem on the internet because people don't have to own what they say. In another class we also talked about the "Yik Yak" app that lets you make anonymous comments and the content you see is based on your radius. This is causing problems because people are also being hatful on platforms like this as well.
- I wonder how the #blacklivesmatter fits into this discussion. I'm not exactly sure, but I think it's work mentioning.
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