Race after the Internet /
"Digital media technologies like the Internet create and host the social networks, virtual worlds, online communities, and media texts where it was once thought that we would all be the same, anonymous users with infinite powers. Instead, the essays in Race After the Internet show us that the I...
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction--race and digital technology: code, the color line, and the information society / Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White
- U.S. operating systems at mid-century: the intertwining of race and UNIX / Tara McPherson
- Race and/as technology, or how to do things to race / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
- From black inventors to one laptop per child: exporting a racial politics of technology / Rayvon Fouché
- Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the history of Star Wars / Curtis Marez
- Does the whatever speak? / Alexander R. Galloway
- Matrix multiplication and the digital divide / Oscar H. Gandy, Jr
- Have we become postracial yet? Race and media technology in the age of President Obama / Anna Everett
- Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: indigenous Internet infrastructure / Christian Sandvig
- White flight in networked publics: how race and class shaped American teen engagement with MySpace and Facebook / Danah Boyd
- Open doors, closed spaces? Differentiated adoption of social network sites by user background / Eszter Hargittai
- New voices on the net? The digital journalism divide and the costs of network exclusion / Ernest J. Wilson III and Sasha Costanza-Chock
- Roots and revelation: genetic ancestry testing and the YouTube generation / Alondra Nelson and Jeong Won Hwang
- Genomic databases and an emerging digital divide in biotechnology / Peter A. Chow-White
- The combustible intersection: genomics, forensics, and race / Troy Duster.