“Digilantes, Vulnerable Bodies, and Hyperbolic Violence on the Internet”
Dr. Lisa Nakamura
Friday, May 2, 2014
314 BTSU
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Dr. Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture and Screen Arts at the University of Michigan. She is the author of two books on race and digital media, Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota, 2008). Digitizing Race won the Asian American Studies Association book award in Cultural Studies in 2010. She is the co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (2000) and Race After the Internet (Routledge, 2011). She is currently working on a new monograph on digital labor, race, and production cultures of the Internet.
Dr. Nakamura’s lecture is part of the Biopolitics/Cyberpolitics: 2014 ICS Lecture Series. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 419-372-0565.
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