The Internet Can’t Teach What The Social World Can

An avid blogger and author on race and media, Jessie Daniels’ recent work looks at how students react to websites of white supremacy groups. She also teaches a class on Internet skills at City University of New York—Hunter College, where she’s on the science faculty. While she chronicles her experiments in her books White Lies and Cyber Racism, here Daniels tells Contexts about how it became clear that all the internet savvy in the world can’t replace actual knowledge of our society and history.