Race After the InternetLisa Nakamura, Peter Chow-White In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate changing ideas of race within the context of an increasingly digitally mediatized cultural and informational landscape. Using social scientific, rhetorical, textual, and ethnographic approaches, these essays show how new and old styles of race as code, interaction, and image are played out within digital networks of power and privilege. Race After the Internet includes essays on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to social media technologies like Facebook and MySpace, popular online games like World of Warcraft, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, and DNA databases in health and law enforcement. Contributors also investigate the ways in which racial profiling and a culture of racialized surveillance arise from the confluence of digital data and rapid developments in biotechnology. This collection aims to broaden the definition of the "digital divide" in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of access, usage, meaning, participation, and production of digital media technology in light of racial inequality. Contributors: danah boyd, Peter Chow-White, Wendy Chun, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Troy Duster, Anna Everett, Rayvon Fouché, Alexander Galloway, Oscar Gandy, Eszter Hargittai, Jeong Won Hwang, Curtis Marez, Tara McPherson, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, Ernest Wilson |
Contents
Code the Color Line and the Information Society | 1 |
The History of Race and Information Code Policies Identities | 19 |
The Intertwining of Race and UNIX | 21 |
2 Race andas Technology or How to Do Things to Race | 38 |
Exporting a Racial Politics of Technology | 61 |
4 Cesar Chavez the United Farm Workers and the History of Star Wars | 85 |
Race Identity and Digital Sorting | 109 |
5 Does the Whatever Speak? | 111 |
Digital Segregations | 201 |
How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook | 203 |
10 Open Doors Closed Spaces? Differentiated Adoption of Social Network Sites by User Background | 223 |
11 New Voices on the Net? The Digital Journalism Divide and the Costs of Network Exclusion | 246 |
Biotechnology and Race as Information | 269 |
Genetic Ancestry Testing and the YouTube Generation | 271 |
13 Genomic Databases and an Emerging Digital Divide in Biotechnology | 291 |
Genomics Forensics and Race | 310 |