Race after the Internet

Name: Race after the Internet
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ISBN: 9780415802369

ISBN-10: 0415802369

ISBN-13: 9780415802369

Edition: 2011

Authors: Lisa Nakamura, Peter Chow-White

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Digital Race explores racial identity in the digital age. The contributors consider the complex role that the Internet and other digital technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Some essays consider ways that digital media has made racial identity more complex and fluid, looking, for example, at virtual worlds like Second Life and social networks like Facebook in which people may not share the racial identity of their onscreen selves. Other essays address the digital divide that is still with us, connecting limited access to digital technology to social inequality. A final group of essays enters the brave new world of biotechnology to find ways that biometrics and other new…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction-Race and Digital Technology: Code, the Color Line, and the Information Society




The History of Race and Information: Code, Policies, Identities



U.S. Operating Systems at Mid-Century: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX




Race and/as Technology, or How to Do Things to Race




From Black Inventors to One Laptop Per Child: Exporting a Racial Politics of Technology




Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the History of Star Wars




Race, Identity, and Digital Sorting



Does the Whatever Speak?




Matrix Multiplication and the Digital Divide




Have We Become Postracial Yet? Race and Media Technology in the Age of President Obama




Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure




Digital Segregations



White Flight in Networked Publics': How Race: and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook




Open Doors, Closed Spaces? Differentiated Adoption of Social Network Sites by User Background




New Voices on the Net? The Digital Journalism Divide and the Costs of Network Exclusion




Biotechnology and Race as Information



Roots and Revelation: Genetic Ancestry Testing and the YouTube Generation




Genomic Databases and an Emerging Digital Divide in Biotechnology




The Combustible Intersection: Genomics, Forensics, and Race



Contributors


Index