ISBN:
9780415802352
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (353 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Race After the Internet
DDC:
305.8002854678
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Investigating how racialization and racism are changing in web 2.0 digital media culture, Race After the Internet contains interdisciplinary essays on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to digital media, including Facebook and MySpace, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, DNA databases in health and law enforcement, and popular online games like World of Warcraft. Ultimately, the collection broadens the definition of the ""digital divide"" in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of usag
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Race After the Internet; Copyright; Contents; Introduction-Race and Digital Technology: Code, the Color Line, and the Information Society; Part I : The History of Race and Information: Code, Policies, Identities; 1. U.S. Operating Systems at Mid-Century: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX; 2. Race and/as Technology, or How to Do Things to Race; 3. From Black Inventors to One Laptop Per Child: Exporting a Racial Politics of Technology; 4. Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the History of Star Wars; Part II : Race, Identity, and Digital Sorting; 5. Does the Whatever Speak?
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Matrix Multiplication and the Digital Divide7. Have We Become Postracial Yet? Race and Media Technology in the Age of President Obama; 8 Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure; Part III : Digital Segregations; 9. White Flight in Networked Publics: How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook; 10. Open Doors, Closed Spaces? Differentiated Adoption of Social Network Sites by User Background; 11. New Voices on the Net? The Digital Journalism Divide and the Costs of Network Exclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV : Biotechnology and Race as Information12. Roots and Revelation: Genetic Ancestry Testing and the YouTube Generation; 13. Genomic Databases and an Emerging Digital Divide in Biotechnology; 14. The Combustible Intersection: Genomics, Forensics, and Race; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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