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32 - Asian American New Media as Literature for the Digital Age

from Part VI - Twenty-First Century: 9/11, Empire, and Other Challenges to Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

Rajini Srikanth
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Min Hyoung Song
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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This chapter provides an overview of a range of Asian American new media literary forms and practices composing contemporary Asian American online life. It considers how Asian American blogs and e-mail campaigns engage Asian Americans into offline activism. Asian American online life as expressed through Twitter and Wikipedia suggest how digital technologies are platforms of racial meaning. Asian American digital life can be seen as a born-digital literature with offline effects. New media liberates Asian Americans from the stranglehold of traditional platforms of expression, and this liberation can continue to engender startling forms of creativity, critique, and controversy. Asian American writing during the digital age illustrates the complex intersection between race and technology. Asian American literature in the digital age finds form in technology, content in activism, and application in concerns that investigate the politics of race as a digital formation.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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