cyberghetto

English

Etymology

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

Noun

cyberghetto (plural cyberghettos)

1. The equivalent of a ghetto in cyberspace; a place on the Internet etc. where a social group is marginalized.
   • 1998, Bosah L. Ebo, Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet:

     But critics argue that the potential for a cyberghetto is real because the Internet will retain vestiges of traditional communities with similar hierarchical social linkages and class-structural relationships.

   • 2011, Jim Miller, Kelly Mayhew, Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire, page 96:

     Neither an isolated “cyberghetto” where all interests are monolithically shared, nor a democratic “cybercommunity” based on an ethic of reciprocity, virtual Raider Nation is an anarchic free-for-all where the lack of physical proximity changes the rules.