Race After the Internet

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 Fouchà Alexander Galloway Oscar Gandy Eszter Hargittai Jeong Won Hwang Curtis Marez Tara McPherson Alondra Nelson Christian Sandvig Ernest Wilson . Language: English