Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet Volume 23

by Lisa Nakamura

Book Overview

In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet's rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven interfaces as a solution to the problem of racial intolerance. Today's online world is witnessing text-driven interfaces such as e-mail and instant messaging giving way to far more visually intensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816646139
• ISBN13: 9780816646135
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"