Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor; Director of the Digital Studies Institute
lnakamur@umich.eduOffice Information:
3735 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
phone: 734.615.6472
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center. 1996
Highlighted Work and Publications
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: 978-0-8166-4613-5 Notes, Comments, Reviews: "With Digitizing Race, Lisa Nakamura, one of the most perceptive observers of identity in the digital age, skillfully draws our attention to those taken for granted interfaces at which race and ethnicity are constituted, revealing the centrality of these techno-visual practices to contemporary political culture." —Alondra Nelson, co-editor of Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life
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