Race in Digital Space
Cyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment, yet our everyday encounters with race have consequences--both "inside and outside the box."
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MIT Building E51 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Race, Politics and American Media
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama's ascension transformed anything?
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Comparative Media Insights: “Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration”
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIf virtual world users' claims to citizenship and sovereignty within those worlds are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of "gray collar" or semi-legal virtual laborers.
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Race and Representation after 9/11
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWhat kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era?