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Media: nettime discusses Race, Identity and the Internet


Source: nettime, 18 June 2004
Submitted by Ann Light

"Talking Race and Cyberspace: Interview with Lisa Nakamura" by Geert Lovink tackles a subject that has received little attention. Nakumura is not a practitioner, but a thereotical researcher in the States who holds interesting views on the presentation of identity.

It is not so much then included here as a guide to more culturally sensitive interface design, but because it has stimulating moments.

'There's still no compelling critical ethodology or toolkit that allows for a reading of ideology and identity in new media — like what John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" did for semiotics and visual analysis — for critics to use.'

 


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