Nakamura and Chow-White make the point important that neutrality of digital space may not be present to all and most likely is in fact not there. Discrimination is everywhere on the Internet whether people using and accessing it see it or not. Our generation and the generations after are learning how to utilize most things through this digital access. Virtually this not does make social inequality any more better than it was before the digital world. If anything maybe worse in some parts of the internet. With a digital world there are sequences, and the live actions of people make those sequences. The complication of digital space correlates with different sections in the space that separate people through a particular race.
People who have digital access identify themselves on the internet and in real life through different races. Within the digital space there becomes groups against each other. Every day on twitter I experience a Twitter account that was retweeted and to be "funny" is directed toward a certain race of people. Whether these tweets consist of something stereotypical or something over the top racist, there is a digital copy and there is no fully getting rid of that. As this is kept up and is seen as funny like most people read it, the neutrality will never happen. These problems started before the digital age. As long as there was technology and even before that racial problems were present.
Like Rayvon Fouché describes in his "From Black Inventors to One Laptop Per Child" Exporting a Racial Politics of Technology" essay. he describes that the racial problems with African Americans in the digital world started long before in the sense of technology. He describes the four types of periods in American culture with mapping race. The neutrality of digital space as I agree with Fouché started long before the digital age. Just because there can be privacy and not face to face interactions. This could cause more challenging problems with race on the internet. Like in class we discussed Yik Yak. It is anonymous but in reality nothing is. Individuals forget that face and use that as an excuse to cause the path to neutrality to become more messed up than it already is.
What was most intriguing to me was Alex Galloway's "does the Whatever Speak?" I agree with him how the production of stereotypes should be seen more as a racial coding in the sense of digital racial imaginary. "Simulations are powerful". Anything that has to do with digital space, which is most anything in a handful of peoples everyday lives, is through code. He emphasizes in his essay that "primary mechanism of oppression" is the digital and virtual world. There is a lot of bad throughout the internet not even on the dark web, but throughout it all. the inequality of race is seen through the digital world. Nakamur and Chow-White correlate the different views of this and the other people out there who have researched opinions on the matter.
