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The facts, alone, will not save us. Social change requires novel fictions that reimagine and rework all that is taken for granted about the current structure of society. Such narratives […]
This essay asks how visual representations of the postcolonial Caribbean are shaped by, and in turn could reshape, the political imaginary of sovereignty. Describing several different experiments with form—from conventional […]
A glance at the headlines involving smart cities reveals that the “race for smart cities” is happening.1, 2 The word “race” is frequently associated with “smart city,”but that usage of […]
Providing a much needed overview of the growing field of digital sociology, this handbook connects digital media technologies to the traditional sociological areas of study, like labour, culture, education, race, […]
From new media’s eccentric temporalities and reliance on reading codes to their relationships to ephemera, publics, viruses, music, and subcultures, new media intersect with queer theories in a variety of […]
This special issue poses the questions: to what degree are race and technology intertwined? Can race be considered a technology or a form of media—that is, not only a mechanism, […]
Is it possible to think of race as a disinterested object of our delight, as opposed to one that is overinscribed? Can race survive as something other than the remnant […]
This article explores issues of gendered, classed and raced identities using examples drawn from my research on a type of online forum known as a mud. I critique previous accounts […]
Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, looks at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures through popular yet rarely evaluated uses […]
To date, most inquiries into race and cyberspace have focused on the “digital divide” – whether racial minorities have access to advanced computing-communication technologies. This paper asks a more fundamental […]
This paper examines Native Americans’ self-representation on tribally maintained web sites. To investigate the motivation for the selection of one representative image over another; the content and expected audience of […]