Overview
Introduction:
Digital Racial Formations
Chapter 1:
"Ramadan is Almoast Here"
Chapter 2:
Alllooksame
Chapter 3:
The Social Optics of Race
Chapter 4:
Avatars and Visual Culture
Chapter 5:
Measuring Race on the Internet
Epilogue:
Racio-Visual Logic
Conclusions on Digitizing Race
Notes
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References
Nakamura, Lisa. (2002). Cybertypes: Race ethnicity and identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge.
Nakamura, Lisa. (2007). Digitizing race: Visual cultures of the Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Notes
The WIRED Magazine February 2004 cover was accessed from http://www.wired.com/wired/covers/wiredcover12_02.jpg on July 12, 2008. I grayscaled it using Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Jennifer Lopez video “If You Had My Love” and Matrix: Reloaded clips accessed from http://www.youtube.com on July 14, 2008.
The buddy icon Single and Sexy was found through a general search at http://www.buddyicon.com. It was created in March of 2005 by AndysSweetLiLhUn.
Alllooksame.com header graphic captured from http://www.alllooksame.com on July 14, 2008.
iPod advertisement originally from Macworld Magazine. Accessed July 14, 2008, from http://www.chaosmint.com/mac/ipod-ads/.
The avatar and signature example is from forum.colts.com. I generated it and deleted it on July 15, 2008. It’s my user account, utilized to avoid capturing another person’s identity.
“Gay or Asian” image originally from Details magazine, April 2004. Accessed here from UCLA’s International Institute: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/images/4-09_Details1.jpg |
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