“Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet” Export

@misc{citeulike:300165, author = {Nakamura, Lisa}, citeulike-article-id = {300165}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/syllabi/readings/nakamura.html}, comment = {Nakamura discusses the political significance of both the lack of racial designations in LambdaMOO and the manner in which people (often white/and or socially privileged) will practice ” identity tourism” in LambdaMOO. Nakamura asserts that ” identity tourism in cyberspaces like LambdaMOO functions as a fascinating example of the promise of high technology to enhance travel opportunities by redefining what constitutes travel‹logging on to a phantasmatic space where one can appropriate exotic identities means that one need never cross a physical border or even leave one's armchair to go on vacation.” She further argues that ” this 'promise' of 'ultimate mobility and perfect exchange' is not, however, fulfilled for everyone in LambdaMOO,” for ” the suppression of racial discourse which does not conform to familiar stereotypes, and the enactment of notions of the Oriental which do conform to them, extends the promise of mobility and exchange only to those who wish to change their identities to fit accepted norms.” Thus 'identity tourism' constitutes, for Nakamura, a means to reinscribe hegemonic and orientalist visions of race (and race intertwined with gender) rather than the possibility for identity slippage and subversion often celebrated in other theoretical works. Nakamura's piece provides, in this sense, an excellent means to think outside of much of the theoretical paradigms that tend to propone cyberspace as immediately non-racial and always already liberated from any sense of embodied politics. }, keywords = {cyberspace, embodiment, erace, gender, mary-weaver, mud, new-media, passing}, posted-at = {2005-08-22 01:16:50}, priority = {0}, title = { ” Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet”}, url = {http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/syllabi/readings/nakamura.html} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:300165 L3 - citeulike-article-id:300165 TI - “Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet” KW - cyberspace KW - embodiment KW - erace KW - gender KW - mary-weaver KW - mud KW - new-media KW - passing N1 - Nakamura discusses the political significance of both the lack of racial designations in LambdaMOO and the manner in which people (often white/and or socially privileged) will practice “identity tourism” in LambdaMOO. Nakamura asserts that “identity tourism in cyberspaces like LambdaMOO functions as a fascinating example of the promise of high technology to enhance travel opportunities by redefining what constitutes travel‹logging on to a phantasmatic space where one can appropriate exotic identities means that one need never cross a physical border or even leave one's armchair to go on vacation.” She further argues that “this ‘promise’ of ‘ultimate mobility and perfect exchange’ is not, however, fulfilled for everyone in LambdaMOO,” for “the suppression of racial discourse which does not conform to familiar stereotypes, and the enactment of notions of the Oriental which do conform to them, extends the promise of mobility and exchange only to those who wish to change their identities to fit accepted norms.” Thus ‘identity tourism’ constitutes, for Nakamura, a means to reinscribe hegemonic and orientalist visions of race (and race intertwined with gender) rather than the possibility for identity slippage and subversion often celebrated in other theoretical works. Nakamura’s piece provides, in this sense, an excellent means to think outside of much of the theoretical paradigms that tend to propone cyberspace as immediately non-racial and always already liberated from any sense of embodied politics. AU - Nakamura, Lisa UR - http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/syllabi/readings/nakamura.html ER -