Lisa Nakamura

Cybertypes (eBook, ePUB)

Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2002. In Cybertypes, Lisa Nakamura turn sour assumption that the Net is color-blind on its head. Examining all facets of everyday web-life, she shows that racial and ethnic stereotypes, or 'cybertypes' are hardwired into our online interactions: Identity tourists masquerade in chat rooms as Asian_Geisha or Alatiniolover. Web directories sharply delimit racial categories. Anonymous computer users are assumed to be white. Lively, provocative, Cybertypes takes up computer relationship between race, ethnicity and technology and offers a candid and nuanced understanding of identity in the information age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135222055
• Artikelnr.: 39908896

Autorenporträt

Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Chapter 2 Head-Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces
Chapter 3 Race in the Construct and the Construction of Race: The "
Consensual Hallucination" of Multiculturalism in the Fictions of Cyberspace
Chapter 4 "
Where Do You Want To Go Today?": Cybernetic Tourism, The Internet, And Transnationale
Chapter 5 Menu-Driven Identities: Making Race Happen Online
Conclusion
Keeping It (Virtually) Real: The Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object of Knowledge