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But what does it mean to engage in a cultural studies informed critique in a new medium (cyberspace)?
Will the boundaries of cultural phenomenon encountered in the past by cultural studies
continue to be the same in the digital? Do questions of representation and access (often
noted by cultural studies) sustain the same importance in cyberspace? Have
utopian visions of the Web as a democratic sphere where race, gender, and class subside replaced
the issue of representation? Or, if we acknowledge that the Web
will never reach the level of utopia promised since its inception, can
we ask if these
traditional places of cultural study give way to other approaches, approaches
less concerned with representation and more interested in hybridity?
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