Lisa
Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program,
Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies
Program and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of
Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000). She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. She is editing a collection with Peter Chow-White entitled Digital Race: An Anthology
(Routledge, forthcoming) and is working on a new monograph tentatively entitled Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds. She is a member
of the editorial board of the Journal of Asian American Studies, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Games and Culture.
She teaches courses on Asian Americans and media as well as
introductory and advanced courses on new media criticism, history, and
theory. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet, Routledge, 2002. Race in Cyberspace, co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman, Routledge, 2000.
recent writing: “Race and Identity in Digital Media,” for Mass Media and Society, 5th edition, edited by James Curran, forthcoming Neda Soltani, Race, and Digital Labor, Difference Engines, June 27, 2009. Digital Piecework: A Mockery of Creative Industries, Difference Engines, March 14, 2009. “Digital Media in Cinema Journal—1995-2008,” Cinema Journal, forthcoming 2009. "Plug and Pray: Performances of Risk and Failure in Digital Media Presentations," The Velvet Light Trap, forthcoming 2009. “The Socioalgorithmics of Race: Sorting it Out in Jihad Worlds,” for inclusion in New Media and Surveillance, edited by Kelly Gates and Shoshana Magnet, Routledge, forthcoming 2009. "Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft" Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2009. “Interfaces of Identity: Oriental Traitors and Telematic Profiling in 24” in Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, 2009. “Cyber-race,” PMLA: Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, Special issue on Comparative Racialization, 2008 “Neoliberal Space and Race in Virtual Worlds,” The Velvet Light Trap, 2008. “Mixedfolks.com: ‘Ethnic Ambiguity,’ Celebrity Outing, and the Internet” in Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Media Culture, edited by Mary Beltran and Camille Fogas, NYU Press, 2008. “Alllooksame? Mediating Asian American Visual Cultures of Race on the Web” in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, edited by Shilpa Dave, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren, 262-272. New York: NYU Press, 2005. not so recent essays: "Race in/for Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet." in Works and Days, Volume 13, 181-193, 1995. |
