AfroGEEKS: From Technophobia to Technophilia.
In recent years, African Americans, especially, have been portrayed as poster children for the digital divide discourse. Though rarely represented full participants in the information technology revolution, Black people are among the earliest adopters and comprise some of the most ardent and innovative users of IT. African diasporic people´s many successes within new media and information technologies are too often overshadowed by the significant inequalities in technology access which ultimately produces the racial digital divide.