Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the InternetU of Minnesota Press, 20 ¸.¤. 2007 - 248 ˹éÒ 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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... Social Optics of Race and Networked Interfaces in The Matrix Trilogy and Minority Report 4. Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web 5. Measuring Race on the Internet: Users, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the ...
... social and intellectual space that validated this book and for building the discipline of visual cul- ture studies at UW Madison. Jill Casid and Preeti Chopra, core faculty members in this research area, also deserve much thanks. Tamar ...
... social studies and data analysis, found lost URLs for media duplication, resuscitated dead Web sites, gave career advice, taught me how to use presentation and bibliographic software, kept up high standards in image reproduction, and ...
... social scientific, consisting of communication, sociology, and information studies scholars. Visual culture studies has the potential to intervene powerfully in the study of new media if it is prepared to discuss the Internet and shared ...
... social identities and a concern with the visual apparatus. Art history is a long- standing and canonized field in the letters and sciences and had become mired in debates regarding its adherence to traditional modes of analyzing visual ...
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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 |