Virtual ethnicity : race, resistance and the World Wide Web /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Leung, Linda.
Imprint:	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
Description:	196 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnicity -- Computer network resources. World Wide Web -- Social aspects. Internet -- Social aspects. Racism. Minorities -- Computer network resources. Internet -- Social aspects. Minorities -- Computer network resources. Racism. World Wide Web -- Social aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5675907

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ISBN:	0754643034 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-191) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
'Not Everything in Black and White Makes Sense': differing definitions of difference
'Its All There in Black and White': media studies and the theorising of race and ethnicity on the world wide web
Tactics and technologies of resistance: the web as minority medium
The Matrix: the complexities of the empirical research and its interdisciplinary methodologies
A computer in the home or a bug in the house? Ethnic minority women's consumption of information technology in the domestic sphere
Continuing the tradition: translating the web through previous media
Reconfiguring ethnicity: the web as technology of self-representation
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

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