Abstract
This chapter lays out the broad political economy of race and the Internet. It explores the emergence of the transnational super-corporations within whose structures and through whose products and services racism occurs. It explores how processes of regulation form, are resisted and transform. It also looks at how the cyber world has changed since the major studies undertaken in the first decade of the century have been overtaken by new technologies, new questions of regulation and new environments of racialised conflict and racial empowerment.
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ITU: International Telecommunications Union; UNESCO: United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organisation; UNCTAD: Conference on Trade and Development; UNDESA: Department of Economic and Social Affairs; FAO: Food and Agricultural Organisation; UNEP: Environment Programme; WHO: World Health Organisation; ILO: International Labor Organisation; WMO: World Meteorological Organisation; ITC: International Trade Center (part of WTO: World Trade Organisation); UPU: Universal Postal Union.
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Jakubowicz, A. et al. (2017). Context: “Cyberspace,” “Race” and Community Resilience. In: Cyber Racism and Community Resilience. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64388-5_1
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