Digitizing Race Visual Cultures of the Internet

Name: Digitizing Race Visual Cultures of the Internet
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ISBN: 9780816646135

ISBN-10: 0816646139

ISBN-13: 9780816646135

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lisa Nakamura

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In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internetrsquo;s rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven interfaces as a solution to the problem of racial intolerance. Todayrsquo;s online world is witnessing text-driven interfaces such as e-mail and instant messaging giving way to far more visually intensive and commercially driven media forms that not only reveal but showcase peoplersquo;s racial, ethnic, and gender identity. nbsp; Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, uses case studies of popular…

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List price: $19.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 12/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 5.95" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Digital Racial Formations and Networked Images of the Body



"Ramadan Is Almoast Here!" The Visual Culture of AIM Buddies, Race, Gender, and Nation on the Internet



Alllooksame? Mediating Visual Cultures of Race on the Web



The Social Optics of Race and Networked Interfaces in The Matrix Trilogy and Minority Report



Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web



Measuring Race on the Internet: Users, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the United States


Epilogue: The Racio-Visual Logic of the Internet


Notes


Bibliography


Publication History


Index