Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media

Bys: Dara N. Byrne, Tyrone D. Taborn, Chela Sandoval, et al.

Book Overview

An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital media landscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and the digital divide.

It may have been true once that (as the famous cartoon of the 1990s put it) "Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet," and that (as an MCI commercial of that era declared) on the Internet there is no race, gender, or infirmity, but today, with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262050919
• ISBN13: 9780262050913
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher