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A Study on Reading of Racial Discriminations and Prejudices in Cyberspace

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2011, (21), pp.165-198
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

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ABSTRACT

It is very important to overcome the dichotomy between virtual/online and real/offline living when we analyze interactions in cyberspace from the perspective of relationships. The fact that power relationships offline permeate other relationships online can be well understood by methodologically using the concept of race in cyberspace. The question of how the discourses of race based on Western-centered thoughts and values work in cyberspace helps us to understand how deeply many discriminations and oppressions of the cultural others are being strengthened. These cultural others can be empowered to be moral agents in their own contexts by naming social evils, based on the socio-historical concreteness and the notion of their new identities. To critically read distorted relationships in cyberspace could be led to open up a possibility for cultural others to overcome their uniformly defined identities and oppressed experiences and to paradoxically use them for their moral agency. The possibility is based on Christian ethical understanding of all human beings as active moral agents who continue to do moral reflections and practices and have the power to create and mediate new interactions in cyberspace. In addition, cyberspace could be claimed as a sacred place when it is used as a communal and responsible place for responding to God’s call for love and justice.

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