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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Visual Cultures of the Internet Lisa Nakamura. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction : Digital Racial Formations and vii Networked Images of the Body 1 1. “ Ramadan Is Almoast Here ! " The Visual Culture of AIM Buddies , Race , Gender ...
... images from their Web sites. Drs. Teri Woods, Marlin Kriss, Julie Holfez ... image reproduction, and made me happy. And my beautiful daughter Laura's strong and sometimes snarky spirit is ... Digital Racial Formations and Acknowledgments ix.
Visual Cultures of the Internet Lisa Nakamura. Introduction. Digital. Racial. Formations. and. Networked. Images. of. the. Body. A constellation of events in relation to the Internet, digital visual represen- tations of bodies, and racial ...
... Internet. My mode of critique in this book is to employ the paradigm of visual cul- ture studies to focus on the ways that users of the Internet collaboratively produce digital images of the body—very particular things for very particu ...
... images of the body are appropriated from other offline media. This is far preferable to an ahistorical type of critique that may prove of little use to future schol- ars, especially because Internet culture changes so rapidly as to ...
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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 |