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9780791477205

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

14 Mo

2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Deftly interweaving history, culture, and critical theory, Anna Everett traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace, particularly during the early years of the Internet. She challenges the problematic historical view of black people as quintessential information-age outsiders or poster children for the digital divide by uncovering their early technolust and repositioning them as eager technology adopters and consumers, and thus as coconstituent elements in the information technology revolution. She offers several case studies that include lessons learned from early adoption of the Internet by the Association of Nigerians Living Abroad and their Niajanet virtual community, the grassroots organizing efforts that led to the phenomenally successful Million Woman March, the migration of several historic black presses online, and an interventionist critique of race in contemporary video games. Ultimately, Digital Diaspora shows how African Americans and African diasporic peoples developed the necessary technomastery to ride in the front of the bus on the information superhighway.
Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Toward a Theory of the Egalitarian Technosphere: How Wide Is the Digital Divide?

2. Digital Women: The Case of the Million Woman March Online and on Television

3. New Black Public Spheres: The Case of the Black Press in the Age of Digital Reproduction

4. Serious Play: Playing with Race in Contemporary Gaming Culture

5. The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Reimaging Africanity in Cyberspace

Conclusion

Notes
Works Cited
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

05 février 2009

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780791477205

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

14 Mo

DIGITAL DIASPORA

CULTURAL STUDIES IN

CINEMA/VIDEO

W H E E L E R W I N S T O N D I X O N

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DIGITAL DIASPORA 

A Race for Cyberspace

A N N A E V E R E T T

SUNY P R E S S

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Everett, Anna (date) Digital diaspora : a race for cyberspace / Anna Everett. p. cm. — (Suny series, cultural studies in cinema/video) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7914-7673-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7914-7674-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Computers—Social aspects—United States. 2. African Americans and mass media—United States. 3. Digital media—Social aspects—United States. 4. African diaspora. I. Title. QA76.9.C66E95 2009 303.48'34—dc22 2008017373

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To Wheeler and James, for never losing faith in this project.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

C H A P T E R O N E 9 Toward a Theory of the Egalitarian Technosphere: How Wide Is the Digital Divide?

C H A P T E R T W O 49 Digital Women: The Case of the Million Woman March Online and on Television

C H A P T E R T H R E E 79 New Black Public Spheres: The Case of the Black Press in the Age of Digital Reproduction

C H A P T E R F O U R 109 Serious Play: Playing with Race in Contemporary Gaming Culture

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Works Cited

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Conclusion

C H A P T E R F I V E 147 The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Reimaging Africanity in Cyberspace

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Index

Notes

CONTENTS

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Old School Hip Hop site.

Array of screen shots from African and African diasporic web sites including Buganda Pages, featuring King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, circa 1999. Courtesy and©of Dr. Mukasa E. Ssemakula, ANA (Association of Nigerians Abroad) hompage, and ANC (The African National Congress).

Screen shot ofVisionssplash page.

MWM logo and crowd scene rendering on poster.

Screen shots from MWM video documentary with Representative Maxine Waters and Winnie Mandela.

Screen shot from MWM video documentary featuring footage from local TV news.

Yahoo screen grab.

Screen shots ofNew York Timesin 1998.

Screen shots ofThe Afro Americanewspaper in 1998 and 2004.

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Screen grab,Daikatanagame.

Images of several of Midway games characters.

Image of characters from the game Might and Magic.

Screen grab of Nigerian scientist Philip Emeagwali in traditional African Garb surrounded by computers.

Screen grab of Anita Brown.

Photo of STP students in computer lab, and satellite in rural and urban spaces.

Cover image of DVD for Ugandan women’s microbusiness venture, and photo of seventy-year-old technophile Anastasia, at computer.

Photo montage of images from both the Afrogeeks and Highway Africa conferences that convened May 2005 in the United States of America, and later in October 2005 in South Africa, respectively.

Scanned image of 2008 campaign button for now-President-Elect Barack Obama

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