Cybertypes :
Nakamura, Lisa.
Cybertypes : race, ethnicity, and identity on the Internet / Lisa Nakamura. - New York ; London : Routledge, 2002. - xix, 169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; CybertypesRace, Ethnicity, and Identityon the Internet; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Head-Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces; Race in the Construct and the Construction of Race: The ""Consensual Hallucination"" of Multiculturalism in the Fictions of Cyberspace; ""Where Do You Want to Go Today?"": Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality. Menu-Driven Identities: Making Race Happen OnlineConclusion; Keeping It (Virtually) Real: The Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object of Knowledge; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
0415938368(cased) : 50.00 0415938376(pbk.) : 12.99
2001048945
Cyberspace--Social aspects.
Internet--Social aspects.
Race awareness.
Race discrimination.
305.8002854678
Cybertypes : race, ethnicity, and identity on the Internet / Lisa Nakamura. - New York ; London : Routledge, 2002. - xix, 169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; CybertypesRace, Ethnicity, and Identityon the Internet; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Head-Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces; Race in the Construct and the Construction of Race: The ""Consensual Hallucination"" of Multiculturalism in the Fictions of Cyberspace; ""Where Do You Want to Go Today?"": Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality. Menu-Driven Identities: Making Race Happen OnlineConclusion; Keeping It (Virtually) Real: The Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object of Knowledge; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
0415938368(cased) : 50.00 0415938376(pbk.) : 12.99
2001048945
Cyberspace--Social aspects.
Internet--Social aspects.
Race awareness.
Race discrimination.
305.8002854678