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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453292203321

Titolo

Asian America.Net : ethnicity, nationalism, and cyberspace / / edited by Rachel C. Lee and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Routledge, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-135-44959-7

1-135-11313-0

1-135-44952-X

0-203-95734-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 p.)

Disciplina

303.483

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Social aspects - United States

Internet - Social aspects - United States

Cyberspace - Social aspects - United States

Minorities in technology - United States

Asian Americans - Communication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Orienting Orientalism, or how to map cyberspace / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Cyber-race / Jerry Kang -- Virtually Vietnamese : nationalism on the internet / Kim-An Lieberman -- North American Hindus, the sense of history, and the politics and internet diasporism / Vinay Lal -- Reimaging the community : information technology and web-based Chinese language networks in North America / Yuan Shu  -- Laughter in the rain : jokes as membership and resistance / Emily Noelle Ignacio -- The geography of cyberliterature in Korea / Aeju Kim -- Intercollegiate web pedagogy : possibilities and limitations of virtual Asian American studies / John Cheng, Karen Har-Yen Chow, and Pamela Thoma with Rachel C. Lee -- Filipina.com : wives, workers, and whores on the cyberfrontier / Vernadette V. Gonzalez and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez -- Will the real Indian woman log-on? Diaspora,



gender, and comportment Linta Varghese -- The revenge of the yellowfaced cyborg terminator : the rape of digital geishas and the colonization of cyber-coolies in 3D realm’s Shadow Warrior / Jeffrey A. Ow -- Good politics, great porn : untangling race, sex, and technology in Asian American cultural productions / Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu -- Queer cyborgs and new mutants : race, sexuality, and prosthetic sociality in digital space / Mimi Nguyen.

Sommario/riassunto

Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.