In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate changing ideas of race within the context of an increasingly digitally mediatized cultural and informational landscape. Using social scientific, rhetorical, textual, and ethnographic approaches, these essays show how new and old styles of race as code, interaction, and image are played out within digital networks of power and privilege. Race After the Internet includes essays on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to social media technologies like Facebook and MySpace, popular online games like World of Warcraft, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, and DNA databases in health and law enforcement. Contributors also investigate the ways in which racial profiling and a culture of racialized surveillance arise from the confluence of digital data and rapid developments in biotechnology. This collection aims to broaden the definition of the digital divide in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of access, usage, meaning, participation, and production of digital media technology in light of racial inequality. Contributors: danah boyd, Peter Chow-White, Wendy Chun, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Troy Duster, Anna Everett, Rayvon Fouche, Alexander Galloway, Oscar Gandy, Eszter Hargittai, Jeong Won Hwang, Curtis Marez, Tara McPherson, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, Ernest Wilson
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415802369
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106716968
Product Key Features
Author
Lisa Nakamura, Peter Chow-White
Publication Name
Race after the Internet
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, Sociology
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
346 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
567g
Additional Product Features
Editor
Peter Chow-White, Lisa Nakamura
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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