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FW: Lisa Nakamura at UC
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"McKee, Heidi A." <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:26:32 -0500
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Hi, Everyone,

Sorry if this went out on the AIMS list already. Lisa does great work--I imagine this will be of interest to AIMS students as well.
Heidi
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From: English Department [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mannur, Anita [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 10:16 PM
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Subject: Lisa Nakamura at UC

FYI: this event may be of interest to Miami faculty.
Anita

Lisa Nakamura Lecture: Thursday, Jan. 12, 7:00, Taft Research Center

“Flag as Inappropriate: Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Online Games”

Lisa Nakamura points out that digital games scholars who study race, gender, and sexuality within games often focus on racist and sexist images, narratives, and representations within games themselves. However, players often experience the most virulent types of discrimination and hate speech at the hands of other players. Women, people of color, and gay gamers are producing a growing resistance to this culture. This talk examines born-digital media campaigns against racism, sexism, and homophobia in the form of blogs, YouTube videos, and other web-based media documents and archives that critique instances of gaming racism, sexism, and homophobia.

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Lisa Nakamura is Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies and Cinema Studies Department 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, 2008, winner of the 2010 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) and Race After the Internet (Routledge, forthcoming 2011).


Anita Mannur, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of English and Asian/ Asian American Studies
329 Bachelor Hall
English Department
Miami University
Oxford OH 45056

Tel: 513 529 5264
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2059_reg.html

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