Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the InternetU of Minnesota Press, 20 ธ.ค. 2007 - 248 หน้า In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet’s rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven interfaces as a solution to the problem of racial intolerance. Today’s online world is witnessing text-driven interfaces such as e-mail and instant messaging giving way to far more visually intensive and commercially driven media forms that not only reveal but showcase people’s racial, ethnic, and gender identity.
Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, uses case studies of popular yet rarely examined uses of the Internet such as pregnancy Web sites, instant messaging, and online petitions and quizzes to look at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures.
While popular media such as Hollywood cinema continue to depict nonwhite nonmales as passive audiences or consumers of digital media rather than as producers, Nakamura argues the contrary—with examples ranging from Jennifer Lopez music videos; films including the Matrix trilogy, Gattaca, and Minority Report; and online joke sites—that users of color and women use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics.
Lisa Nakamura is associate professor of speech communication and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet and coeditor, with Beth Kolko and Gilbert Rodman, of Race in Cyberspace. |
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... Internet : Users , Identity , and Cultural Difference in the United States Epilogue : The Racio - Visual Logic of the Internet Notes Bibliography Publication History Index 171 202 211 227 239 241 This page intentionally left blank ...
... use of the Internet and, most importantly, heralded its transformation from a primarily textual form to an increasingly and irreversibly graphical one that remediates video and other pictorially representational practices such as ...
... Internet, a form with an increas- ingly visual bent, a development trajectory measured in months rather than years, a diversifying population of users and producers, a serious and thor- oughgoing intervention into American culture and ...
... use to future schol- ars, especially because Internet culture changes so rapidly as to render its particular histories irrecoverable in short order. Thus, just as visual culture studies is bringing its concerns regarding globalization ...
... users. In other words, these critics write about digital visuality as if it were a medium like radio, television, or film, rather than as a mode of com- munication ... Internet specifically, despite the Internet's penetration Introduction 9.
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1 Ramadan Is Almoast Here The Visual Culture of AIM Buddies Race Gender and Nation on the Internet | 37 |
2 Alllooksame? Mediating Visual Cultures of Race on the Web | 70 |
3 The Social Optics of Race and Networked Interfaces in The Matrix Trilogy and Minority Report | 95 |
4 Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web | 131 |
Users Identity and Cultural Difference in the United States | 171 |
The RacioVisual Logic of the Internet | 202 |
Notes | 211 |
Bibliography | 227 |
Publication History | 239 |
Index | 241 |