[Air-l] Re: Publications on race and the internet

[leda at comm.umass.edu]

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

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> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 13:53:00 -0800
> From: Homero Gil de Zuniga <hgildezuniga at wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Publications on race and the Internet
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> > >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
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> From: "Jillana Enteen" <jillana at rcnchicago.com>
> To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Publications on race and the Internet
> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:55:45 -0600
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> 
> 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 at rcnchicago.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Homero Gil de Zuniga" <hgildezuniga at wisc.edu>
> To: <air-l at 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 at students.wisc.edu
> >
> >
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> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 17:27:18 -0500
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> From: Wendy Robinson <wgrobin at uc.edu>
> Subject: [Air-l] Re: What is a discipline - role of AoIR. (Nancy Baym)
> Reply-To: air-l at 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.
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> At 12:01 PM 11/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Message: 1
> >Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:18:24 -0600
> >To: air-l at aoir.org
> >From: Nancy Baym <nbaym at ku.edu>
> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] What is a discipline - role of AoIR.
> >Reply-To: air-l at 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.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >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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