Digitizing race : visual cultures of the Internet /
Lisa Nakamura.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.
- ix, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Electronic mediations ; 23 .
- Electronic mediations ; v. 23. .
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.