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An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital media landscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and the digital divide.It may have been true once that (as the famous cartoon of the 1990s put it) "Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet," and that (as an MCI commercial of that era declared) on the Internet there is no race, gender, or infirmity, but today, with the development of web cams, digital photography, cell phone cameras, streaming video, and social networking sites, this notion seems quaintly idealistic. This volume takes up issues of race and ethnicity in the new digital media landscape. The contributors address this topic—still difficult to engage honestly, clearly, empathetically, and with informed understanding in twenty-first century America—with the goal of pushing consideration of a vexing but important subject from margin to center. Learning Race and Ethnicity explores the intersection of race and ethnicity with post 9/11 politics, online hate-speech practices, and digital youth and media cultures. It examines universal access and the racial and ethnic digital divide from the perspective of digital media learning and youth. The chapters treat such subjects as racial identity in the computer-mediated public sphere, minority technology innovators, new methods of music distribution, digital artist Judy Baca's work with youth, Native American digital media literacy, and minority youth technology access and the pervasiveness of online health information. ContributorsAmbar Basu, Graham D. Bodie, Dara N. Byrne, Jessie Daniels, Mohan J. Dutta, Raiford Guins, Guisela Latorre, Antonio López, Chela Sandoval, Tyrone D. Taborn, Douglas Thomas

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Crypto Regs — Fear, Greed, and the Destruction of the Digital Commons -- What We Should Do and What We Should Forget in Media Studies — Or, My TV A–Z -- Hybridity -- @henryparkesmotel.com -- Is Television a Global Medium? — A Historical View -- The Land Grab for Bandwidth — Digital Conversion in an Era of Consolidation -- Posthuman Law — Information Policy and the Machinic World -- Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry -- Unsuitable Coverage — The Media, the Veil, and Regimes of Representation -- Muscle, Market Value, Telegenesis, Cyberpresence — The New Asian Movie Star in the Global Economy of Masculine Images -- The African Diaspora Speaks in Digital Tongues -- Some Versions of Difference — Discourses of Hybridity in Transnational Musics -- Alternate Arrangement for Global Currents -- Notes on contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. INDUSTRY, PROGRAMS, AND PRODUCTION CONTEXTS -- Convergence Television: Aggregating Form and Repurposing Content in the Culture of Conglomeration -- Lifestyling Britain: The 8–9 Slot on British Television -- What If ?: Charting Television's New Textual Boundaries -- Interactive Television and Advertising Form in Contemporary U.S. Television -- Flexible Microcastting: Gender, Generation, and Television-Internet Convergence -- II. TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURAL FORM -- Television's Next Generation: Technology/ Interface Culture/Flow -- The Rhythms of the Reception Area: Crisis, Capitalism, and the Waiting Room tv -- Broadcast Television: The Chances of Its Survival in a Digital Age -- Double Click: The Million Woman March on Television and the Internet -- III. ELECTRONIC NATIONS, THEN AND NOW -- One Commercial Week: Television in Sweden Prior to Public Service -- Media Capitals: Cultural Geographies of Global tv -- At Home with Television -- Pocho.com: Reimaging Television on the Internet -- IV. TELEVISION TEACHERS -- Television, the Housewife, and the Museum of Modern Art -- From Republic of Letters to Television Republic? Citizen Readers in the Era of Broadcast Television -- Cultural Studies, Television Studies, and the Crisis in the Humanities -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Gender, Sexuality, and Media: Audience and Spectatorship -- PART I Revisiting Film Subjects and the Pleasures of Cinema -- ONE Feminine Discourse in Blackmail -- TWO Venus in Furs: Masoch, Deleuze, and the Films of von Sternberg -- THREE "You Don't Know What It Is to Look White and Be Black": The Black Press Mediates Race in the Classic Hollywood Studio System, 1930–1940 -- Joe Dallesandro—A "Him" to the Gaze: Flesh, Heat, and Trash -- PART II Speaking Up and Sounding Out 75 -- FIVE Unheard Sexualities?: Queer Theory and the Soundtrack -- SIX The Articulation of Body and Space in Speak Body -- SEVEN "I Kinda Prefer to Be a Human Being": Roseanne Barr and Defining Working-Class Feminism and Authorship -- EIGHT Riot Grrrl: It's Not Just Music, It's Not Just Punk -- PART III Queering Media -- NINE Soap Slash: Gay Men Rewrite the World of Daytime Television Drama -- TEN From Excess to Access: Televising the Subculture -- ELEVEN Pronoun Trouble: The "Queerness" of Animation -- PART IV Containment and Its Critiques -- TWELVE Of Fleiss and Men: The Transgressions and Containment of a Hollywood Madam -- THIRTEEN Out on Stage: LGBT Politics of Entertainment Award Shows -- FOURTEEN Lesbian Cop, Queer Killer: Leveraging Black Queer Women's Sexuality on HBO's The Wire -- PART V Fandom and Transmedia -- FIFTEEN Resurrection of the Vampire and the Creation of Alternative Life: An Introduction to Dark Shadows Fan Culture -- SIXTEEN The Rumors Are True!: Gossip Girl and the Cooptation of the Cult Fan -- SEVENTEEN The Trouble with Transmediation: Fandom's Negotiation of Transmedia Storytelling Systems -- Contributors -- Index