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SUMMARY:Comparative Media Insights: "Race\, Rights\, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration"
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Nakamura\nAs ICT’s become available to new groups of users\, notably those from the global South\, new social formations of virtual labor\, race\, nation\, and gender are being born. And if virtual world users’ claims to citizenship and sovereignty within them are to be taken seriously\, so too must the question of “gray collar” or semi-legal virtual laborers and their social relations and cultural identity in these spaces. Just as labor migrants around the globe struggle to access a sense of belonging in alien territories\, so too do virtual laborers\, many of whom are East and South Asian\, confront hostility and xenophobia in popular gaming worlds and virtual “workshops” such as World of Warcraft and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Do these users have the right to have rights? This presentation considers the affective investments and cultural identities of these workers within the virtual worlds where they labor. \nLisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program\, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program 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\, 2007)\, Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002) and a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge\, 2000). She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication\, PMLA\, Cinema Journal\, The Women’s Review of Books\, Camera Obscura\, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.   She is editing a collection with Peter Chow-White entitled Digital Race: An Anthology (Routledge\, forthcoming) and is working on a new monograph on Massively Multiplayer Online Role playing games\, the transnational racialized labor\, and avatarial capital in a “postracial” world.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-nakamura-race-rights-virtual-worlds/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 310\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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