02709nam 2200613Ia 450 991082078440332120200520144314.00-8166-5377-1(CKB)1000000000484860(EBL)334221(OCoLC)567946907(SSID)ssj0000139263(PQKBManifestationID)11144861(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139263(PQKBWorkID)10005821(PQKB)11218320(OCoLC)214085023(MdBmJHUP)muse33405(Au-PeEL)EBL334221(CaPaEBR)ebr10215803(CaONFJC)MIL525795(MiAaPQ)EBC334221(EXLCZ)99100000000048486020070706d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDigitizing race visual cultures of the Internet /Lisa Nakamura1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (260 p.)Electronic mediations ;23Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4613-9 0-8166-4612-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.Introduction: digital racial formations and networked images of the body -- "Ramadan is almoast here!": the visual culture of AIM buddies, race, gender, and nation on the Internet -- Alllooksame?: mediating visual cultures of race on the Web -- The social optics of race and networked interfaces in The matrix trilogy and Minority report -- Avatars and the visual culture of reproduction on the Web -- Measuring race on the Internet: users, identity, and cultural difference in the United States -- Epilogue: the racio-visual logic of the Internet.Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, looks at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures through popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet.While popular media depict people of color and women as passive audiences, Nakamura argues that they use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics.Electronic mediations ;v. 23.InternetTelecommunicationInternet.Telecommunication.004.678Nakamura Lisa696944MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820784403321Digitizing race4005012UNINA