The Social in Media: Race, History, and the Visualizing Cultures Controversy at MIT
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Author(s)
Condry, Ian
Date Issued
April 2015
Journal
positions: asia critique
Publisher
Duke University Press
Citation
Condry, I. “The Social in Media: Race, History, and the Visualizing Cultures Controversy at MIT.” Positions: Asia Critique 23, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 175–180.
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Abstract
Online communication has a tendency to operate without clear contextual cues. What does the Visualizing Cultures controversy say about the contexts in which race, Asians, and history intersect? The website All Look Same offers an intriguing example of the difficulties of combating racism. As we come into contact with images online, we expand our awareness but also simultaneously move into realms where we have only a limited grasp of the contexts in which things are made, and the goals to which they aspire.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Global Languages
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2870570
