Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet

First published in 2002. In Cybertypes, Lisa Nakamura turn sour assumption that the Net is color-blind on its head. Examining all facets of everyday web-life, she shows that racial and ethnic stereotypes, or 'cybertypes' are hardwired into our online interactions: Identity tourists masquerade in chat rooms as Asian_Geisha or Alatiniolover. Web directories sharply delimit racial categories. Anonymous computer users are assumed to be white. Lively, provocative, Cybertypes takes up computer relationship between race, ethnicity and technology and offers a candid and nuanced understanding of identity in the information age.

Author: Lisa Nakamura
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/14/2002
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.68w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780415938372

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 08/05/2002 pg. 68
Publishers Weekly 08/06/2002

About the Author

Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is coeditor of Race in Cyberspace, also published by Routledge.