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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The DSI Reading Room | The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet with Lisa Nakamura
DESCRIPTION:Who built\nthe digital economy\, and whose labor has been overlooked in the stories we tell\nabout its development? The Inattention Economy challenges familiar\nnarratives of technological innovation by tracing the often uncredited and\nunpaid contributions of women of color across three pivotal moments in\ncomputing: the microchip era of the 1960s and ’70s\, the rise of social media in\nthe 2000s\, and the emergence of AI-fueled virtual reality in the 2020s. Through\nthe stories of Navajo women who manufactured early semiconductor circuits\,\nVietnamese American internet pioneer Tila Tequila\, and Black virtual reality\ncreators\, the book examines how gendered and racialized labor has shaped the\ntechnologies and platforms embedded in everyday life. In doing so\, it offers a\ncounterhistory of Silicon Valley that calls for both recognition and material\ncompensation for the labor that has made the digital economy possible. \n\nThe DSI Reading Room is a conversation series featuring new books by Digital\nStudies Institute faculty and guest authors. Through public discussions\, we\nexplore emerging scholarship and the ideas shaping technology\, culture\, media\,\nand society.\n\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the\nDepartment of American Culture at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is\nthe lead Principal Investigator of the DISCO (Digital Inquiry\, Speculation\,\nCollaboration\, and Optimism) Network. Nakamura is also the founding Director of\nthe Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and has been\nwriting about digital media\, race\, and gender since 1994. She has written books\nand articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on\ntoxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research\nneeds ethnic and gender studies. She is the author of The Inattention\nEconomy: How Women of Color Built the Internet (University of Minnesota\nPress\, 2026)\, Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet\n(University of Minnesota Press\, 2007)\, and Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and\nIdentity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002).\n\n\n\n\n\nWe strive to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be\na hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space.\n\nCART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\,\nplease email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that\nsome accommodations must be arranged in advance\, and we encourage you to\ncontact us as soon as possible.
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