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;
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.
"Defying a generation of scholars who have argued that there's no
place for race in cyberspace, Lisa Nakamura sets out to find and
analyze the cultural work that race and ethnicity do online.
Traveling through a fascinating web of online nodes and offline
narratives--advertisements for Microsoft and MCI, MUDs, and
commercially-driven Web sites, and cyberpunk films and novels, to
name a few--Nakamura deftly and engagingly shows us that race
happens, both online and within popular discourses portraying
online culture. A tour-de-force that can and should blow the doors
of cyberculture studies wide open, Cybertypes is the book we've
been waiting for." -- David Silver, University of Washington
"Nakamura argues that 'race happens' in cyberspace, and in her book
a savvy racial analysis is what's on the menu. With attention to
presences, absences, identities, subjectivities, ideologies, and
practices in Internet and other cyberspatial zones, Cybertypes
shows how 'doing virtuality' is never unmarked. What we get from
reading difference with Nakamura is a menu for change, not a recipe
for more of the same." -- Donna J. Haraway, University of
California at Santa Cruz
"Cybertypes is a simply fascinating examination of how racial ideas
changed in the online environment." -- TheBookwatch
"Nakamura strikes a productive balance in tone; her writing is
thoughtful yet breezy. It is thorough enough to stand up to the
demands of academia, while it resists relying too heavily on the
labyrinthine and verbose of critical theory or the obtusely
specific jargon of computer technology." -- NYFA Quarterly
"Defying a generation of scholars who have argued that there's
no place for race in cyberspace, Lisa Nakamura sets out to find and
analyze the cultural work that race and ethnicity do online.
Traveling through a fascinating web of online nodes and offline
narratives--advertisements for Microsoft and MCI, MUDs, and
commercially-driven Web sites, and cyberpunk films and novels, to
name a few--Nakamura deftly and engagingly shows us that race
happens, both online and within popular discourses portraying
online culture. A tour-de-force that can and should blow the doors
of cyberculture studies wide open, Cybertypes is the book
we've been waiting for." -- David Silver, University of
Washington
"Nakamura argues that 'race happens' in cyberspace, and in her book
a savvy racial analysis is what's on the menu. With attention to
presences, absences, identities, subjectivities, ideologies, and
practices in Internet and other cyberspatial zones, Cybertypes
shows how 'doing virtuality' is never unmarked. What we get from
reading difference with Nakamura is a menu for change, not a recipe
for more of the same." -- Donna J. Haraway, University of
California at Santa Cruz
"Cybertypes is a simply fascinating examination of how racial ideas
changed in the online environment." --
TheBookwatch
"Nakamura strikes a productive balance in tone; her writing is
thoughtful yet breezy. It is thorough enough to stand up to the
demands of academia, while it resists relying too heavily on the
labyrinthine and verbose of critical theory or the obtusely
specific jargon of computer technology." -- NYFA
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