Nakamura, Lisa. 2008

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.

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Internet--Social aspects.
Information society.
Internet and culture.
Internet and race.
Visual communication.

TK5105.875.I57 / N163 2008

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