Based on our readings, it seems to me that there is an online utopia which offers perhaps liberation from the restrictive characteristics of our bodies such as race, ethnicity, identity, gender, and age. This utopia in the “We’re Teen, We’re Queen, and We' Got Email” article allowed teens an escape from the real world. In this context, Nakamura takes a different approach and focuses on two topics: Race and identity tourism. From race perspective, this is the first book I read on racism in cyberspace. Based on Nakamura, race matters in cyberspace and we form and manage our race through our online interactions. For instance, finding the color you like rather than ethnic identity. Among the chapters, I found chapter 3 most interesting due to reference to popular movies such as the Matrix. I think it would be interesting if the author included the following dialogue between Neo and Trinity.

Neo: The Trinity?… Jesus, I thought you were a man.

Trinity: Most men do.

In Nakamura’s study of the Matrix movie, the analysis of the character Cypher was interesting because the author stated that “the only white man on the crew betrays the humans precisely because he wants to jump the ship of multiculturalism and reclaim his possessive investment of whiteness." (p. 78). But wasn’t there another white man(Apoc)?

At a high level, I think the author makes good observations of the Internet because it seems that the utopian vision was more valid before the dot com bubble.However, Nakamura tries to set a more realistic view.