Etymology

cyberghetto

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Today it means: The equivalent of a ghetto in cyberspace; a place on the Internet etc. where a social group is marginalized. Full definition →

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The story

From cyber- + ghetto, coined by Bosah Ebo in the paper Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet (1998).

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