This is an area of particular interest to me--and my research, so I'd like to add a few refs and take some from what others have added. Hammonds, E. (1997). New Technologies of race. In J. Terry and M. Calvert (Eds.), Gender and technology in everyday life. (pp. 107-122). Burkhalter, B. (2000). Reading race online: discovering racial identity in Usenet discussions. In M. A. Smith & P. Kollack (Eds.), Communities in cyberspace. London: Routledge Mark Poster also wrote an essay on Virtual Ethnicity in Steve Jones' edited book (I believe it was Virtual Culture, but it might be Cybersociety 2.0). I know of others that are less explicit than Burkhalter about addressing race in online interaction . For instance, there are many books that address the larger (mostly from a political economic view) issues that structure race and technology, in particular those that address the digital divide. I'm thinking here of Gerald Sussman's book 1997). Communication, technology and politics in the Information Age. Thousand Oaks: sage Brian Loader's book on the Digital Divide, among others This is all i have on hand. Hope it helps. Leda Cooks Department of Communication University of MA, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 Quoting air-l-request@aoir.org:
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1. Re: Publications on race and the Internet (Homero Gil de Zuniga) 2. Re: Publications on race and the Internet (Jillana Enteen) 3. Re: What is a discipline - role of AoIR. (Nancy Baym) (Wendy Robinson)
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 13:53:00 -0800 From: Homero Gil de Zuniga <hgildezuniga@wisc.edu> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Publications on race and the Internet To: air-l@aoir.org Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Hi Lyabo
I am finding it difficult to find information connecting race and the Internet/cyberspace.
You might also want to check MacKay & O'sullivan, The Media reader: Continuity and transformation. 1999. Sage Publications. London. They have couple of chapters that include some useful information besides some other good references... I particularly liked Sherry Turkle's chapter in which she expands on identity/gender issues on the Internet... Good luck, HGZ
Homero Gil de Zuniga
www.homero.educations.net
UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN-MADISON PO BOX 260022 53726 Madison WI, USA e-mail: hgildezuniga@students.wisc.edu
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Message: 2 From: "Jillana Enteen" <jillana@rcnchicago.com> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Publications on race and the Internet Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:55:45 -0600 Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Add to the race in cyberspace list:
Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life, edited by Nelson and Tu is not just (or much) on the Internet, but technology in general.
The new special issue of Social Text, Afro-futurism, also edited by Nelson.
Work by Anna Everett (especially a forthcoming book), Anandra Mitra, Thomas Foster and Radhika, though she doesn't toot her own horn.
Then there are quite a few studies that deal with other nations using the Internet, especially South Asia.
Jillana Enteen Northwestern University jillana@rcnchicago.com http://www.rcnchicago.com/~jillana ,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸
----- Original Message ----- From: "Homero Gil de Zuniga" <hgildezuniga@wisc.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Publications on race and the Internet
Hi Lyabo
I am finding it difficult to find information connecting race and the Internet/cyberspace.
You might also want to check MacKay & O'sullivan, The Media reader: Continuity and transformation. 1999. Sage Publications. London. They have couple of chapters that include some useful information besides some other good references... I particularly liked Sherry Turkle's chapter in which she expands on identity/gender issues on the Internet... Good luck, HGZ
Homero Gil de Zuniga
www.homero.educations.net
UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN-MADISON PO BOX 260022 53726 Madison WI, USA e-mail: hgildezuniga@students.wisc.edu
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Message: 3 Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 17:27:18 -0500 To: air-l@aoir.org From: Wendy Robinson <wgrobin@uc.edu> Subject: [Air-l] Re: What is a discipline - role of AoIR. (Nancy Baym) Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Wonderfully considered and lucid post from Nancy. Concerns us all. Thank you.
I just joined a new campus and the CIO was asked about this kind of thing (specifically does Blackboard pedagogical activity "count") at a faculty
open house. He bypassed the question by saying it was the old issue of
teaching and research and service and the risk of doing work in emerging
areas (implicitly, therefore, the answer was no, a syllabus is a syllabus is a syllabus, online or off, and doesn't "count" any more than any syllabus does). Yes, you're welcomed as new blood, thanks for the contribution and help with pulling along the late adopters, but expect to pay your dues like everyone else before you.
So: Is work in Net studies like other emerging areas? Can we learn from
the battles fought by women's and environmental studies, for instance? Or cultural studies? Are the issues different, perhaps, among other reasons, because of the corporate-supported IT grants and other soft money not available to other disciplines (e.g., these being tough times for the humanities)? Net-supported research seems to have enjoyed much greater
cross-campus and global support than other areas, even though there are
unlikely to be departments of Internet Studies as Nancy pointed out. What we do has seeped through and become mainstream remarkably quickly.
I wanted to keep Nancy's thread alive, but I don't have As to her Qs either. I strongly agree that these are concerns we need to address going forward if the AoIR is to provide practical support to our careers, as well as to subjectively nourish relationships that are, nonetheless, predicated on common research and avocational (we aren't all academics on the AoIR
list) interests.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wendy Robinson wgrobin@uc.edu Asst Prof, Dept of Comm wgrobin@fuse.net Univ of Cincinnati homepages.uc.edu/~robinswg 620C Teachers College tel: 513-556-4468 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0184 fax: 513-556-0899 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:18:24 -0600 To: air-l@aoir.org From: Nancy Baym <nbaym@ku.edu> Subject: Re: [Air-l] What is a discipline - role of AoIR. Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
I of course can't help but think about all of this quite specifically in terms of the role of AoIR in Internet Studies and what our lofty goals should be, and I wanted to pose some of the questions this discussion raises for me. I start from the premise that while AoIR may be many members' favorite affiliation and conference, we are not likely to be conducting academic careers in an institutionally recognized department of Internet Studies. So one goal may be to provide a form of institutional credibility so that members' work will be recognized by tenure and promotion committees that want evidence of outside review. This is of course one of the major functions of well known academic associations, usually in the form of peer review association journals and conferences.
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How important is it that AoIR provide credibility? How do we apply standards? What kinds of structures could we build through which to apply them? How do we maintain and nurture a kind and stimulating ethos? How do we discipline and nurture one another in a way that does its best to speak to all the home disciplines and traditions in which members make careers?
I don't have a good answer to any of these questions. I see a lot of challenges and balancing acts ahead. My hope is that the right answers will emerge as we continue to discuss these and related issues together.
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