Digitizing Race : Visual Cultures of the Internet /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nakamura, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Internet.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
COMPUTERS > Networking > Intranets & Extranets.
COMPUTERS > Web > General.
Internet
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (250 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816653775

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