Just reread my seminar paper for Digital Rhetoric Race and Cyberspace http://www.janiesantoy.com/5369/CRT_and_Cyberspace.pdf

and I am seeing what my concerns were. I’m going to try to detail them below:

• what research is there on people of color and technology?
  • most research has to do with the digital divide
• what is the problem with research on digital divide
  • it helps to create a rhetoric of deficiency
  • though it does point to inequality, it gives us a sense of what people DONT have which then closes off those avenues to research
  • this is supported by the dearth of research on POC and their use of technologies
  • they also construct the POC as passive; they are not constructing their own representation but are being represented
• the only people studying how POC use technology are
  • some POC scholars
  • industry backed studies which seek to know how to reach consumers
  • again being represented as passive; not constructing their own representation
• so studies about POC are not about how they are constructing themselves but generally  point to them not constructing their own representations but are being represented/constructed online by majority users and by scholars