Kadushin, Charles. 2011. Understanding social networks: Theories,
concepts, and findings. New York: Oxford University Press.
Now in stock at Oxford University Press.

http://tinyurl.com/bmd2rto

and Amazon Kindle.

For students who need to know the basic theories and findings of social
networks; for colleagues who wonder what all the hoopla about social
networks is all about.

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Charles Kadushin
Distinguished Scholar, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
Visiting Research Professor Sociology
Brandeis University

Telephone: 212-865-4369

http://www.charleskadushin.com
http://www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/

Hi everyone. FYI on a new edited book on race, digital technology, and biotechnology:

New from Routledge—Race After the Internet, an essential new collection edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White. Investigating how racialization and racism are changing in web 2.0 digital media culture, Race After the Internet contains interdisciplinary essays by leaders in their fields on the shifting terrain of racial identity and its connections to digital media, including Facebook and MySpace, YouTube and viral video, WiFi infrastructure, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, genetic ancestry testing, DNA databases in health and law enforcement, and popular online games like World of Warcraft. This trailblazing collection broadens the definition of the "digital divide" in order to convey a more nuanced understanding of usage, meaning, participation, and production of digital media technology in light of racial inequality.

With new essays by danah boyd, Peter Chow-White, Wendy Chun, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Troy Duster, Anna Everett, Rayvon Fouché, Alexander Galloway, Oscar Gandy, Eszter Hargittai, Jeong Won Hwang, Curtis Marez, Tara McPherson, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, and Ernest Wilson

Race After the Internet:

·      illuminates the ways digital technology has reshaped our understanding of race and identity.

·      includes trailblazing work by leading contributors from a variety of disciplines.

·      employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to study race and new media.

·      updates the discussion of the "digital divide" for contemporary courses on new media and society.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Race and Digital Technology: Code, the Color Line, and the Information Society Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White

PART 1: The History of Race and Information: Code, Policies, Identities

1. U.S. Operating Systems at Midcentury: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX Tara McPherson

2. Race and/as Technology, or How to do Things to Race Wendy Chun

3. From Black Inventors to One Laptop Per Child: Exporting a Racial Politics of Technology Rayvon Fouché

4. Cesar Chavez, The United Farm Workers, and the History of Star Wars Curtis Marez

PART 2: Race, Identity, and Digital Sorting

5. Does the Whatever Speak? Alex Galloway

6. Matrix Multiplication and the Digital Divide Oscar Gandy

7. Have We Become Postracial Yet? Race and Media Technology in the Age of President Obama Anna Everett

8. Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure Christian Sandvig

PART 3: Digital Segregations

9. White Flight in Networked Publics: How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Adoption of MySpace and Facebook danah boyd

10. Open Doors, Closed Spaces? Differentiated Adoption of Social Network Sites by User Background Eszter Hargittai

11. New Voices on the Net? The Digital Journalism Divide and the Costs of Network Exclusion Ernest Wilson and Sasha Costanza-Chock

PART 4: Biotechnology and Race as Information

12. Roots and Revelation: Genetic Ancestry Testing and the YouTube Generation Alondra Nelson and Jeong Won Hwang

13. Genomic Databases and an Emerging Digital Divide in Biotechnology Peter A. Chow-White

14. The Combustible Intersection: Genomics, Forensics, and Race Troy Duster

Praise for Race After the Internet:

"The hope that the internet will promote tolerance, liberated sensibility and social inclusion is attacked with flair, insight and extensive evidence in this fine book that will be of interest to academics and students around the world." —James Curran, Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

"This is a must-have collection. Bringing together distinguished authors and emergent voices, Race After the Internet breaks new material ground in a field hampered by immaterialist fantasies. We are fortunate that crucial questions of race and new media are being investigated by such skilled and adventurous writers." —Toby Miller, Professor of Media & Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside