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Lisa Nakamura: Digitizing Race
Jan. 5th, 2011 03:59 pmI'm familiar with Wendy Chun's work (have taught it twice), but have had Nakamura on my "must read" list for a while. So today I went over and snaffled one of her books from my library: I'll need to buy them for scribbling in, but for now, I'm taking notes on my computer.
Since there is very little scholarship on online fandom and race, I have moved to the Internet and Race where there is some more -- I have some bibliographic searches I need to post in a bit -- but I decided to start with Nakamura because Sarah Gatson often references her work!
Her academic web page and some of publications:
Lisa Nakamura
Website Articles: digital piecework: a mockery of creative industries, Neda Soltani, Race, and Digital Labor.
Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Nakamura, Lisa, Beth Kolko, and Gilbert Rodman. Race in Cyberspace . Routledge Press, 2000.
"Digital Media in Cinema Journal—1995-2008." Cinema Journal (2009):
Nakamura, Lisa. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
What lies behind the text are what I call reading notes: the kind of notes I take on any test I'm going to teach or work with in my scholarship. After I've finished taking the notes (I'm about halfway through the introduction, but am putting it up online because I'll be coming back later to work on it!), I'll write up a summary of the chapter's arguments. The notes are a mix of paraphrase (mine) of main points, and quotes that strike me as important enough to possible use in later work). I also identify scholarship she references because that can be useful down the road.
So far I'm quite liking her connection between nineties neoliberalism (and its colorblindness) and the move to a more graphic-driven Internet (mid-1990s), and her discussion of multi/inter-disciplinarity of visual culture studies which like new media studies still does not deal very much with raced and gendered bodies and subjects. So far, my evaluation is: excellent book! I wish I'd read it earlier! I will have to teach it soon!
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Since there is very little scholarship on online fandom and race, I have moved to the Internet and Race where there is some more -- I have some bibliographic searches I need to post in a bit -- but I decided to start with Nakamura because Sarah Gatson often references her work!
Her academic web page and some of publications:
Lisa Nakamura
Website Articles: digital piecework: a mockery of creative industries, Neda Soltani, Race, and Digital Labor.
Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Nakamura, Lisa, Beth Kolko, and Gilbert Rodman. Race in Cyberspace . Routledge Press, 2000.
"Digital Media in Cinema Journal—1995-2008." Cinema Journal (2009):
Nakamura, Lisa. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
What lies behind the text are what I call reading notes: the kind of notes I take on any test I'm going to teach or work with in my scholarship. After I've finished taking the notes (I'm about halfway through the introduction, but am putting it up online because I'll be coming back later to work on it!), I'll write up a summary of the chapter's arguments. The notes are a mix of paraphrase (mine) of main points, and quotes that strike me as important enough to possible use in later work). I also identify scholarship she references because that can be useful down the road.
So far I'm quite liking her connection between nineties neoliberalism (and its colorblindness) and the move to a more graphic-driven Internet (mid-1990s), and her discussion of multi/inter-disciplinarity of visual culture studies which like new media studies still does not deal very much with raced and gendered bodies and subjects. So far, my evaluation is: excellent book! I wish I'd read it earlier! I will have to teach it soon!
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