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Digitizing race visual cultures of the Internet

Title
Digitizing race [electronic resource] : visual cultures of the Internet / Lisa Nakamura.
Author
Nakamura, Lisa.
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

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Description
1 online resource (ix, 248 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Electronic mediations ; 23
Uniform Title
  • Digitizing race (Online)
  • Electronic mediations ; v. 23.
Alternative Title
Digitizing race (Online)
Subject
  • Internet > Social aspects
  • Information society
  • Internet and culture
  • Internet and race
  • Visual communication
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2007028263
OCLC
ssj0000139263
Author
Nakamura, Lisa.
Title
Digitizing race [electronic resource] : visual cultures of the Internet / Lisa Nakamura.
Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.
Series
Electronic mediations ; 23
Electronic mediations ; v. 23.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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