In this unprecedented study, leading scholars and emerging voices from around the world consider how race and ethnicity continue to shape our everyday lives, even as digital technology seems to promise a release from our "real" social identities.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
1: Introduction: Race, Ethnicity, Tradition, and Digital Technology.
Thinking Through the Patterns, Practices, and Performances of the Digital.
2: Persistence and Recombination: Digital Communication and Sociocultural Change.
3: “Ethnicity Tag” and the Poetics of Sharing Ethnicity.
Race, Ideologies, and the Integration of Digital Technologies.
4: Keepin’ It Real: Facebook’s Honesty Box and Ethnic Verbal Genres.
5: Building Legends: How Korean StarCraft Gamers Came to Dominate the World.
Folklore and the Expression of Race and Ethnicity In Digital Spaces.
6: #BlackLivesMatter: Galvanizing and Oppositional Narratives.
7: Visual Humor in Online Ethnicity: The Case of Swedes in Norway.
8: Jocular Ethnicity: Negotiating American Chineseness in the Digital Age.
Race and Vernacular Expression In Digital Visual Cultures.
9: From Affiliation to Action: Police Incident Videos, Social Media, and Counter-Narratives of Blackness.
10: “Keep Calm and Love Your Dark Skin”: Representation of Racial Identity and Embodiment in Black Thinspiration.
11: Capture the Flag: Ethnicity and Digital Self-Portrait Photography on the Social Web.
12: Periscoping Race: Vernacular Expressions of Race and Culture on Locative Media.
