Re: [-empyre-] re-skinning?

[claudia@anat.org.au]

Quoting Adam Nash <adam@yamanakanash.net>:

> 
> >ive also been pretty interrested in  representations of gender and race on
> >the net in 3d multiuser worlds and note that most are tall white and male,
> >or women with impossible breasts..and wonder if anyone does reseacrh into
> >race in online worlds.  i know edward castronova just did a study (which i
> >habevent read all of)  which found women avatars (with identical skills )
> >are worth 30 percent  less in $ terms than male avatars when sold .. i was
> >wondering about african, japanese chinese, arab,  koori, sami, native
> >american, maori, etc  avaTars ?
> 
> (The guests probably have better leads on this, but in the meantime...)
> 
> Lisa Nakamura has done some study of this, in her book Cybertypes 
> (Routledge 2002), and also see Kali Tal's review of same at
> http://www.freshmonsters.com/kalital/Text/Reviews/Nakamura.html
> 
> Kali Tal has two essays that deal with issues of race in cyberspace:
> 
> The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (1995)
> http://www.freshmonsters.com/kalital/Text/Articles/whiteness.html
> 
> and
> 
> Duppies In The Machine, or "Anybody know where I can buy a copy of the 
> UPNORTH-OUTWEST GEECHEE JIBARA QUIK MAGIC TRANCE MANUAL FOR TECHNOLOGICALLY 
> STRESSED THIRD WORLD PEOPLE?" (1998)
> http://www.freshmonsters.com/kalital/Text/Articles/Duppies.html
> 
> Regards,
> Adam Nash
> 
> 
> 
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