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Record Nr.

UNISA996320208303316

Titolo

Learning Race and Ethnicity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2007

ISBN

9780262050913

9780262550673

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207)

Altri autori (Persone)

EverettAnna <1954->

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Advertising & society

Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The future of (the) race : identity and the rise of computer-mediated public spheres / Dara N. Byrne -- Separating race from technology : finding tomorrow's IT progress in the past / Tyrone D. Taborn -- Hip hop 2.0 / Raiford Guins -- Decolonial cyber consciousness : Judy Baca's digital artwork with community youth / Chela Sandoval and Guisela Latorre -- The cross and circle : bridging native America and digital media / Antonio Lopez -- Race, civil rights, and hate speech in the digital era / Jessie Daniels -- KPK, Inc. : race, nation, and emergent cultures in online games / Douglas Thomas -- Health disparity and the racial divide among the nation's youth : internet as an equalizer? / Mohan J. Dutta, Graham D. Bodie, and Ambar Basu.

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital media landscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and the digital divide.It may have been true once that (as the famous cartoon of the 1990s put it) “Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet,” and that (as an MCI commercial of that era declared) on the Internet there is no race, gender, or infirmity, but today, with the development of web cams, digital photography, cell phone cameras, streaming video, and social networking sites, this notion seems quaintly idealistic. This volume takes up issues of race and ethnicity in the new digital media landscape. The contributors address this topic—still difficult to engage honestly, clearly,



empathetically, and with informed understanding in twenty-first century America—with the goal of pushing consideration of a vexing but important subject from margin to center. Learning Race and Ethnicity explores the intersection of race and ethnicity with post 9/11 politics, online hate-speech practices, and digital youth and media cultures. It examines universal access and the racial and ethnic digital divide from the perspective of digital media learning and youth. The chapters treat such subjects as racial identity in the computer-mediated public sphere, minority technology innovators, new methods of music distribution, digital artist Judy Baca's work with youth, Native American digital media literacy, and minority youth technology access and the pervasiveness of online health information. ContributorsAmbar Basu, Graham D. Bodie, Dara N. Byrne, Jessie Daniels, Mohan J. Dutta, Raiford Guins, Guisela Latorre, Antonio López, Chela Sandoval, Tyrone D. Taborn, Douglas Thomas