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By Lisa Nakamura
In Race After the net, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White collect a suite of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the advanced position that electronic media applied sciences play in shaping our principles approximately race. participants interrogate altering rules of race in the context of an more and more digitally mediatized cultural and informational panorama. utilizing social clinical, rhetorical, textual, and ethnographic ways, those essays exhibit how new and previous sorts of race as code, interplay, and photo are performed out inside of electronic networks of strength and privilege.
Race After the web comprises essays at the moving terrain of racial id and its connections to social media applied sciences like fb and MySpace, renowned on-line video games like global of Warcraft, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the only machine in keeping with baby (OLPC) application, genetic ancestry checking out, and DNA databases in overall healthiness and legislation enforcement. individuals additionally examine the ways that racial profiling and a tradition of racialized surveillance come up from the confluence of electronic facts and quick advancements in biotechnology. This assortment goals to expand the definition of the "digital divide" on the way to show a extra nuanced knowing of entry, utilization, which means, participation, and construction of electronic media expertise in mild of racial inequality.
Contributors: danah boyd, Peter Chow-White, Wendy Chun, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Troy Duster, Anna Everett, Rayvon Fouché, Alexander Galloway, Oscar Gandy, Eszter Hargittai, Jeong gained Hwang, Curtis Marez, Tara McPherson, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, Ernest Wilson
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