Virtual English - Queer Internets and Digital Creolization

Informationen zum Autor Jillana Enteen is Associate Director and Director of the Undergraduate Studies Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University, where she has taught courses in New Media Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies, Queer Theory and Asian Literature in Diaspora. Zusammenfassung Virtual English challenges prevailing deployments and conceptions of emerging technologies. Their on-line practices illustrate that the Internet need not replicate current geopolitical beliefs and practices and that reconfigurations exist in tandem with dominant models. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Life Skills 2. Booting up: The Languages of Computer Technologies 3. "On the Receiving End of the Colonization": Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘Nansi Web 4. Configuring a Nation 5. Mixing Up Siam 6. Bangkok Boyonthenet.com Epilogue: The Medium Messages

Product details

• Authors: Jillana B. Enteen, Enteen Jillana B.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2009
• EAN: 9780415977241
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97724-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; History, Media Studies, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities