Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

Lisa Nakamura

• Title

  Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

• Date 2008
• ISBN 9780816653775
• Publisher Minneapolis, MN; London, UK: University of Minnesota Press
• Description 248 p; 9 in
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Mindy Seu Cyberfeminism Reference Collection
• 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. (University of Minnesota Press)
  
  Series: Electronic Mediations, Volume 23

  Edition Note: 1st edition

• Tags Technology, Race, Visual culture, Media studies, Review