Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor
lnakamur@umich.eduOffice Information:
3527F Haven Hall
Fields of Study:
Asian American studies, digital media theory, digital game studies, feminist theory, film and television studies, race and gender in new media
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center. 1996
Highlighted Work and Publications
Racist Zoombombing
Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey
This book examines Zoombombing, the racist harassment and hate speech on Zoom.
While most accounts refer to Zoombombing as simply a new style or practice of online trolling and harassment in the wake of increased videoconferencing since the outbreak of COVID-19, this volume examines it as a specifically racialized and gendered phenomenon that targets Black people and communities with racialized and gendered harassment. Racist Zoombombing brings together histories of online racism and algorithmic warfare with in-depth interviews by Black users on their experiences. The...
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Technoprecarious
Lisa Nakamura w/Precarity Lab
An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity.
Technoprecarious advances a new analysis for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate geographical sites and cultural practices in the digital age. Digital technologies—whether apps like Uber, built on flexible labor or platforms like Airbnb that shift accountability to users—have assisted in consolidating the wealth and influence of a small number of players. These platforms have also exacerbated increasingly insecure conditions of work and life for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities...
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Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
Lisa Nakamura
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 of the Internet. While popular media depict people of color and women as passive audiences, Nakamura argues that they use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics. Winner of the Asian American Studies Association award in Cultural Studies, 2010 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Year of Publication: 2007 # of Pages: 256 ISBN... See More
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
Lisa Nakamura
Publisher: Routledge Year of Publication: 2002 # of Pages: 192 ISBN: 978-0-415-93837-2