race and racialization (in cyberspace)

race and racialization doesn't occour in cyberspace. there is no way to tell by speaking to someone over the internet what race they are or if they are a man woman a child disabled or anything. McPherson's article describes the lack of race and racialization in cyberspace and how because of this whitening of the internet occurs.

cyberspace

the electron medium of computers in which online comunication takes place.

Heritage

Where ones liniage comes from. something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion. McPherson describes in her article how the southerners are trying to protect their heritage by protecting the south and making aware the lost causes.

@Race

A command used in a MUD to define race.

Identity Tourism

The ideology that the internet makes everything obsolite except our minds. Race doesnt matter because there is no race on the internet. Also we are able to have multipul selves as described in in the article by McPherson.