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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... Gender , and Nation on the Internet 2. Alllooksame ? Mediating Visual Cultures of Race on the Web 520 37 70 3. The Social Optics of Race and Networked Interfaces in The Matrix Trilogy and Minority Report 95 4. Avatars and the Visual ...
... gender in online environments. It is crucial that scholarship assess these practices to evaluate the Internet as a popular environment for representa- tions of identity. Visual culture provides a powerful methodology for parsing gender ...
... gender, and different modes of possessing the gaze to bear on new media, it is all the more important to relate this to the Internet's popular cultures. In 1996, October, a well-respected journal among art historians, critical theorists ...
... gender and postcolonial theorist; and Hall is best known as a cultural studies scholar). They have been very successful in this task in a relatively short time, so much so that in 2004 Jonathan Sterne could challenge the perceived ...
... gender difference has been published in the fields of commu- nication studies and digital culture, it tends to center more on reportages of online community building and niche groups creating Web sites for ethnic identity purposes, with ...
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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 |