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Asian American Literature
Author_Lisa Nakamura
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Consensual Hallucination
Cosmetic Multiculturalism
crash
Cyberculture Studies
Cyberpunk Fiction
Cyberpunk Narratives
Cyberspace Studies
digital
digital identity formation
divide
Early Virtual Communities
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Graphic Chat
identities
Identity Tourism
internet sociology
La Frontera
Minority Literatures
multicultural discourse online
Multiple User Dimensions
Natural Beauties
online racialization
Online Role Playing
Public Technology Education
racial
racial identity in digital environments
Radhika Gajjala
Rafu Shimpo
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Ultima Online
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Vice Versa
virtual community analysis
Vulcan Mind Meld
Web Builders
whiteness
Ziauddin Sardar
Product details
- ISBN 9780415938372
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 2002. In Cybertypes, Lisa Nakamura turn sour assumption that the Net is color-blind on its head. Examining all facets of everyday web-life, she shows that racial and ethnic stereotypes, or 'cybertypes' are hardwired into our online interactions: Identity tourists masquerade in chat rooms as Asian_Geisha or Alatiniolover. Web directories sharply delimit racial categories. Anonymous computer users are assumed to be white. Lively, provocative, Cybertypes takes up computer relationship between race, ethnicity and technology and offers a candid and nuanced understanding of identity in the information age.
Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is coeditor of Race in Cyberspace, also published by Routledge.
