V. 1. Introduction : Race, ethnicity, tradition, and digital technology / Anthony Bak Buccitelli - Part I : Thinking through the patterns, practices, and performances of the digital - Persistence and recombination : digital communication and sociocultural change / Klaus Schonberger - "Ethnicity tag" and the poetics of sharing ethnicity / Anthony Bak Bucitelli - Part II : Race, ideologies, and the integration of digital technologies - Keepin' it real : Facebook's honesty box and ethnic verbal genres / Ilana Gershon - Building legends : how Korean StarCraft gamers came to dominate the world / Charles La Shure -- Part III : Folklore and the expression of race and ethnicity in digital spaces -- #BlackLivesMatter : galvanizing and oppositional narratives / Jeannie Banks Thomas - Visual humor in online Ethnicity : the case study of Swedes in Norway / Ida Tolgensbakk - Jocular ethnicity : negotiating American Chineseness in the digital age / Mu Li - Part IV : Race and vernacular expression in digital visual cultures - From affiliation to action : police incident videos, social media, and counter-narratives of Blackness / David Todd Lawrence - "Keep calm and love your dark skin" : representation of racial identity and embodiment in Black thinspiration / Annamarie O'Brien - Capture the flag : ethnicity and digital self-portrait photography on the social web / Christian Ritter - Periscoping race : vernacular expressions of race and culture on locative media / Aaron Hess. V. 2. Part V : Racism and the online public sphere - Arab Israeli citizens in the Hebrew journalistic user-comments sphere / Oren Soffer - Errand into the apocalypse : digital prepping for the end of the world and the rebirth of white masculinity / Andrew Miller - Layers of racism : ChinaSMACK and the failure of cross-cultural communication / David Kurt Herold - Part VI : Digital technology and cultures of activism - Wannabes and avatars : anti-racist allies and ethnic appropriation in an age of blogging, Facebook, and Twitter / Casey R. Schmitt -- #SOSBlakAustralia : Facebook as a site of indigenous protest / Marjorie Kibby and Janet Fulton - "If you come to Hungary . . . " : folklore, digital media, and European migrant/refugee crisis / Mariann Domokos - Part VII : Reflection on the study of race, ethnicity, and tradition in the digital age - Green-skinned troublemakers versus the humans : trolls, aliens, and other others in the cyber world / Tok Thompson - Race ethnicity, and our digital futures : an afterword / Tom Boellstorff.
Summary:
This book explores the role of traditional culture in the evolving expressions, practices, and images of race and ethnicity in the digital age. It examines cultural forms in exclusively digital environments as well as in the hybrid environments created by mobile technologies, where real life becomes overlaid with digital content.
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