Download or read book Race After the Internet written by Lisa Nakamura and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: Wendy Chun, Tara McPherson, Rayvon Fouche, Curtis Marez, Alexander Galloway, Oscar Gandy, Anna Everett, Christian Sandvig, danah boyd, Ernie Wilson, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Eszter Hargittai, Alondra Nelson, Peter Chow-White, Troy Duster