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Digitizing race : visual cultures 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nakamura, Lisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Colección:Electronic mediations ; v. 23.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.