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Digitizing race : visual cultures of the Internet
- Title
- Digitizing race : visual cultures of the Internet / Lisa Nakamura.
- Author
- Nakamura, Lisa.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TK5105.875.I57 N35 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 248 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Lisa Nakamura refers to case studies of popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet, such as pregnancy websites, instant messaging, and online petitions and quizzes, to look at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures.
- Series Statement
- Electronic mediations ; 23
- Uniform Title
- Electronic mediations ; v. 23.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780816646128
- 0816646120
- 9780816646135
- 0816646139
- 9780816653775
- 0816653771
- LCCN
- 2007028263
- 9780816646135
- OCLC
- ocn154789875
- 154789875
- SCSB-1461914
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library