2 Jun
2008
2 Jun
'08
12:45 p.m.
On Jun 2, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Robin Reid wrote:
Too often for my taste, work on new media and media convergence (including Henry Jenkin's which is incredibly important and informed my class in major ways) ignores issues of race and gender. Chun's work is incredible.
This is totally true. If interested, Lisa Nakamura's work has focused on race representations in new media environments. Her book Cybertypes is fantastic. Also, at last year's AOIR conference, she gave a wonderful talk that was a kind of political economy of race representation, look at racial representations in WoW in light of digital sweatshop labor. It was really insightful. -lilly lilly nguyen phd student | dept. of information studies | ucla aim: deuxlits