In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White
bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking
essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies
play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate
changing ideas of race within the context of an increasingly
digitally mediatized cultural and informational landscape. Using
social scientific, rhetorical, textual, and ethnographic
approaches, these essays show how new and old styles of race as
code, interaction, and image are played out within digital networks
of power and privilege.
Race After the Internet includes 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, WiFi infrastructure, the One
Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, and DNA
databases in health and law enforcement. Contributors also
investigate the ways in which racial profiling and a culture of
racialized surveillance arise from the confluence of digital data
and rapid developments in biotechnology. This collection aims 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 Chow-White, Wendy Chun, Sasha
Costanza-Chock, Troy Duster, Anna Everett, Rayvon Fouch, Alexander
Galloway, Oscar Gandy, Eszter Hargittai, Jeong Won Hwang, Curtis
Marez, Tara McPherson, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, Ernest
Wilson
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