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 as a utopian space for identity play , community building , and gift economies to a more privatized , profit - driven model , one in which the Internet came to function as a “ commodity - delivery system for vastly expanded media ...
... Internet access that began in 1992 only gained momentum with a crucial change ... digital divide: “I think that there is a Mercedes divide. I'd like to have ... media conglom- eration, and “easing the burden on companies that make voice ...
... 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 media ...
... digital bodies. It is crucial to examine users in their embodied sub- ject ... media. This is far preferable to an ahistorical type of critique that may ... media, it is all the more important to relate this to the Internet's popular ...
... media, kinds of production, or modes of signs, or [the ways that] those ... digital image. This notion that visual images produced or exhibited via ... digital visual images. However, this notion, which was formed in reaction against the ...
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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 |