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In recent years there has been a large and diverse body of writing from scholars in the social sciences who have been studying changes brought about by new communication technologies in general and the Internet in particular. The question of how people behave, interact and organize themselves in rel…
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Identities and Inequalities emphasizes the merging of four key social identifiers-race (and ethnicity), class, gender, and sexuality - from the perspective of individuals embedded in particular cultural, institutional, and historical contexts. Taking an integrated approach to how the four key socia…