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cyberghetto

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + ghetto, coined by Bosah Ebo in the paper Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet (1998).

Definitions

  1. The equivalent of a ghetto in cyberspace

    The equivalent of a ghetto in cyberspace; a place on the Internet etc. where a social group is marginalized.

    • But critics argue that the potential for a cyberghetto is real because the Internet will retain vestiges of traditional communities with similar hierarchical social linkages and class-structural relationships.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cyberghetto. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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