Cyberghetto
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From cyber- + ghetto, coined by Bosah Ebo in the paper Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet (1998).
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