Digitizing race : visual cultures of the Internet / Lisa Nakamura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakamura, Lisa.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 23.

Electronic mediations ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet.

Telecommunication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, looks at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures through popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet.While popular media depict people of color and women as passive audiences, Nakamura argues that they use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics.

Contents:

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5377-1

OCLC:

567946907