Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
By (Author) Lisa Nakamura
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st February 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Society and culture: general
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
004.67
Physical Properties
Paperback
250
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm
Description
Today's online world is witnessing text-driven interfaces such as e-mail and instant messaging giving way to far more visually intensive and commercially driven media forms that not only reveal but showcase people's racial, ethnic, and gender identity. Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, refers to case studies of popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet such as pregnancy Web sites, instant messaging, and online petitions and quizzes to look at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures.
