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Nakamura, Digitizing Race, Introduction, chapter 5, Epilogue

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Measuring <strong>Race</strong> on the Internet 201<br />

tance of moving beyond models of minorities as passive media audiences:<br />

“We need to engage with the Internet beyond Web surfing and checking<br />

e-mail.” 59 It is imperative that we devise rigorous methodologies to help us<br />

understand what constitutes meaningful participation online, participation<br />

that opens and broadens the kinds of discourse that can be articulated there.<br />

It is not enough merely to be “there”: the image of the online “lurker” invokes<br />

the passivity and ghostliness of those who watch from the sidelines of<br />

online life.

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