Tutorial Presentation of Racing Markers of Difference

My presentation is base on the e-journals which called HK cyberculture: a case study.
Through the journal, it mention that internet is a place where is peaceful and humanity exits without restraints. And it associated with Habermasian ideal world of true participatory democracy in the virtual world.

The article is focused on research of cyberculture, using ICERED as a case study. This English community is established in HK. There is the bulletin board and it divided into 3 parts which included work, play, and school. Through ICERED user, they have to log onto the site with a fake name (make up a name for themselves).Through their communication as they just to find the chartroom buzzing with gossip, conjecture, unfounded speculation, and everyday peoples like you and me who are lucky or unlucky to have become the topics of discussion. They seem like defender of freedom of speech. However there is the conflict between freedom and regulation, between the right to speech and the right to privacy. As there is the case of “E-silk road Holding, an online exhibition, it sued ICERED for libel and ask to know who is posted these offensive comment of against their company.

The unbearable “whiteness” of ICERED

Through the journal, it point out that internet as a “racialzed space. Tal didn’t agree with “color –blindness” of the internet and Bailey think that whites are the domination of cyberspace as the adoption of knowledge and language of the white and excluded non-white.
Through the ICERED case, most peoples are “yellow”, the radicalized exist through how “yellow” marginalized the “white” and “non-yellow”. As the site is an English language site so it can be attract some white or racist white people to join it.
There is dialogue which posted in ICERED and it is reflected the racial problem in internet.
A white user called “RATMAN” posted the report result “86% Chinese people have only 70% peripheral vision compared with westerners.” As a result, a conflict was take place between the white and yellow through the dialogue.
Another scholar claim that the sense of “race” is still exist in internet as the relation between racial identity and physical body is very strong. It is through online interaction racial identity spring from participant’s perception rather than psychical cues.