Race After the Internet

by Lisa Nakamura (Editor), Peter Chow-white (Editor)

In this collection, Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White bring together interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays that explore the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Race After the Internet contains essays on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to social media technologies like Facebook and MySpace, popular online games like World of Warcraft, YouTube and viral video, genetic ancestry testing, and DNA databases in health and law enforcement. Contributors aim to broaden the definition of the "digital divide" in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of access, usage, meaning, participation, and production of digital media technology in light of racial inequality.

Contributors: danah boyd, Peter A. Chow-White, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Troy Duster, Anna Everett, Rayvon Fouché, Alexander Galloway, Oscar Gandy Jr, Eszter Hargittai, Jeong Won Hwang, Curtis Marez, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, Ernest Wilson III.

Genres: Race, Theory, Nonfiction, Science, Internet, Sociology

343 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2010

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[Kristine · Rating 4 out of 5]

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