Definitions
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- noun The equivalent of a
ghetto incyberspace ; a place on theInternet etc. where a social group ismarginalized .
Etymologies
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cyber- + ghetto, coined by Bosah Ebo in the paper Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet (1998).
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Examples
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As Russia pushes for "domain names in languages with non-Latin alphabets," the nation's people worry "that Cyrillic domains will give rise to a hermetic Russian Web, a sort of cyberghetto, and that the push for Cyrillic amounts to a plot by the security services to restrict access to the Internet."
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But now, computer users are worried that Cyrillic domains will give rise to a hermetic Russian Web, a sort of cyberghetto, and that the push for Cyrillic amounts to a plot by the security services to restrict access to the Internet.
NYT > Technology 2009
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