Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace

2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Deftly interweaving history, culture, and critical theory, Anna Everett traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace, particularly during the early years of the Internet. She challenges the problematic historical view of black people as quintessential information-age outsiders or poster children for the digital divide by uncovering their early technolust and repositioning them as eager technology adopters and consumers, and thus as coconstituent elements in the information technology revolution. She offers several case studies that include lessons learned from early adoption of the Internet by the Association of Nigerians Living Abroad and their Niajanet virtual community, the grassroots organizing efforts that led to the phenomenally successful Million Woman March, the migration of several historic black presses online, and an interventionist critique of race in contemporary video games. Ultimately, Digital Diaspora shows how African Americans and African diasporic peoples developed the necessary technomastery to ride in the front of the bus on the information superhighway.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Everett, Anna
Published: 02/01/2009
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9780791476741
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.61d