ABSTRACT
Access to online information and interaction has often proved vital to women around the globe, and women and men continue to work on the gender gap in cyberspaces. Digital technologies have done astonishing things in enabling greater sight and hearing, in facilitating physical rehabilitation and movement, and in extending possibilities for folks with cognitive conditions such as autism, stroke, among others. According to disability activists, disabling responses to people with disabilities typically take one of these forms: pity; heroic appreciation; invisibility; annoyance/impatience, New media have great potential to challenge racism and racialization and in some areas they are doing so. The rise of the popular Internet coincided with the rise of conservatives claims that racism had ended, that people were entering a post-racial or colorblind era of history. Subject position deeply shapes personal identity, people tend to view their identities more as personally chosen than broadly shaped by cultural factors.
