Race after the Internet / edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nakamura, Lisa.

Chow-White, Peter

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Race relations.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Physical Description:

vi, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

"Digital media technologies like the Internet create and host the social networks, virtual worlds, online communities, and media texts where it was once thought that we would all be the same, anonymous users with infinite powers. Instead, the essays in Race After the Internet show us that the Internet and other computer-based technologies are complex topographies of power and privilege, made up of walled gardens, new (plat)forms of economic and technological exclusion, and both new and old styles of race as code, interaction, and image. Investigating how racialization and racism are changing in web 2.0 digital media culture, Race After the Internet contains interdisciplinary essays on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to digital media, including Facebook and MySpace, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, DNA databases in health and law enforcement, and popular online games like World of Warcraft. Ultimately, the collection broadens the definition of the "digital divide" in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of usage, meaning, participation, and production of digital media technology in light of racial inequality. "-- Provided by publisher.

"Race After the Internet explores racial identity in the digital age, grappling with the complex role that the Internet and other digital technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. The readings are separated into sections that examine how digital media has complicated racial identity as well as the connection between limited digital access and social inequality. Other essays address new racial identities created by users of popular media of virtual worlds like World of Warcraft, and social networks like Facebook and MySpace. And a final group of essays enters the world of biotechnology to find ways that biometrics and new surveillance technologies are creating different forms of racial profiling. Race After the Internet investigates how racialization and racism are changing in web 2.0 digital media culture, thus making it a valuable text for anyone interested in digital media and race and ethnic studies.The essays incorporate science and technology studies, social scientific, rhetorical, textual, theoretical, and ethnographic approaches with some carefully selected demographic studies of Internet and technology use. This collection aims to broaden the definition of the "digital divide" in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of usage, meaning, participation, and production of digital media technology in light of racial inequality"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I The History of Race and Information: Code, Policies, Identities 19

1 U.S. Operating Systems at Mid-Century: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX / Tara Mcpherson Mcpherson, Tara 21

2 Race and/as Technology, or How to Do Things to Race / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong 38

3 From Black Inventors to One Laptop Per Child: Exporting a Racial Politics of Technology / Rayvon Fouché Fouché, Rayvon 61

4 Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the History of Star Wars / Curtis Marez Marez, Curtis 85

Part II Race, Identity, and Digital Sorting 109

5 Does the Whatever Speak? / Alexander R. Galloway Galloway, Alexander R. 111

6 Matrix Multiplication and the Digital Divide / Oscar H. Gandy, JR Gandy, Oscar H., JR 128

7 Have We Become Postracial Yet? Race and Media Technology in the Age of President Obama / Anna Everett Everett, Anna 146

8 Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure / Christian Sandvig Sandvig, Christian 168

Part III Digital Segregations 201

9 White Flight in Networked Publics': How Race: and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook / Danah Boyd Boyd, Danah 203

10 Open Doors, Closed Spaces? Differentiated Adoption of Social Network Sites by User Background / Eszter Hargittai Hargittai, Eszter 223

11 New Voices on the Net? The Digital Journalism Divide and the Costs of Network Exclusion / Ernest J. Wilson III Wilson, Ernest J. III, Sasha Costanza-Chock Costanza-Chock, Sasha 246

Part lV Biotechnology and Race as Information 269

12 Roots and Revelation: Genetic Ancestry Testing and the YouTube Generation / Aloudra Nelson Nelson, Aloudra, Jeong Won Hwang Hwang, Jeong Won 271

13 Genomic Databases and an Emerging Digital Divide in Biotechnology / Peter A. Chow-White Chow-White, Peter A. 291

14 The Combustible Intersection: Genomics, Forensics, and Race / Troy Duster Duster, Troy 310.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780415802352

0415802350

9780415802369

0415802369

OCLC:

491894197