Lisa Nakamura

Cybertypes

Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining internet advertising, role-playing games, chat rooms, cyberpunk fiction and web design, Nakamura traces the real-life consequences that follow when we attempt to push issues of race and identity on-line.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780415938372
• ISBN-10: 0415938376
• Artikelnr.: 21626784

Autorenporträt

Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is coeditor of Race in Cyberspace, also published by Routledge.

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