Cybertypes

Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93836-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

First published in 2002. In Cybertypes, Lisa Nakamura turn sour assumption that the Net is color-blind on its head. Examining all facets of everyday web-life, she shows that racial and ethnic stereotypes, or 'cybertypes' are hardwired into our online interactions: Identity tourists masquerade in chat rooms as Asian_Geisha or Alatiniolover. Web directories sharply delimit racial categories. Anonymous computer users are assumed to be white. Lively, provocative, Cybertypes takes up computer relationship between race, ethnicity and technology and offers a candid and nuanced understanding of identity in the information age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nakamura, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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.