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Please join us in celebration of the publication of new books by two distinguished members of the faculty of the University of Illinois' College of Media on Monday, Nov. 10 beginning at 2 p.m. in the Authors Corner at Illini Union Bookstore, 809 South Wright Street, Champaign. Participating authors are Professors Lisa Nakamura and Anghy Valdivia. Book discussions will be followed by a question & answer session, book signings, refreshments and prize giveaways. The event is free and open the public. For additional information please contact Scott Baseler, Events Coordinator for the Bookstore: 217-333-2050 or sbaseler@illinois.edu Lisa Nakamura, Interim Director, Professor, Asian American Studies & Institute of Communications Research Lisa Nakamura is Associate Professor at the Institute of Communications Research and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000). She has published articles on cross-racial discourse in Internet chatspaces, race, embodiment, and virtuality in the film and television, and political economies of race and cyberspace in publications such as Reading Digital Culture, Popular Culture: a Reader, The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Women's Review of Books, Unspun: Key Terms for the World Wide Web, The Cybercultures Reader, Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices, and the Visual Culture Reader 2.0. She teaches courses on Asian Americans and media as well as introductory and advanced courses on new media criticism, history, and theory. Professor Nakamura is an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic years. Lisa Nakamura (Nakamura, Lisa (2007). Digitizing Race: Visual cultures of the Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 978-0-8166-4613-5/ISBN-10: 0-8166-4613-9 Today's online world is witnessing text-driven interfaces such as e-mail and instant messaging giving way to far more visually intensive and commercially driven media forms that not only reveal but showcase people's racial, ethnic, and gender identity. Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, refers to case studies of popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet such as pregnancy Web sites, instant messaging, and online petitions and quizzes to look at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures. While popular media such as Hollywood cinema continue to depict nonwhite nonmales as passive audiences or consumers of digital media rather than as producers, Nakamura argues the contrary-with examples ranging from Jennifer Lopez music videos; films including the Matrix trilogy, Gattaca, and Minority Report; and online joke sites-that people of color and women use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics. Angharad Valdivia, Institute of Communications Research Angharad Valdivia is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Media Studies, Professor of Latina/Latino Studies, Professor of Unit for Interpretive Criticism, and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies. Professor Valdivia is the author of A Latina in the Land of Hollywood [Arizona, 2000]and the editor of The Media Studies Companion [Blackwell, 2003];Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities [Sage: 1995]; the communication and culture section of the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women [2000] and co-editor of Geographies of Latinidad [Duke, 2006]. She has published essays in the Communication Review, Global Media Journal, Journal of Communication, the Journal of International Communication, the Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Inclusive Education, Women and Language, Chasqui, and in many edited anthologies. Professor Valdivia is an affiliate faculty member with Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Valdivia, Anghy (2008). (Ed.). Latina/o Communication Studies Today. New York: NY: Peter Lang Publishing Group. # ISBN-10: 0820486280/# ISBN-13: 978-0820486284 This book brings together contemporary and exciting research within communication and Latina/o studies. Written in a clear, accessible manner and based on original research drawn from a broad range of paradigms - from textual analysis to reception studies and political economy - Latina/o Communication Studies Today provides an invaluable resource and excellent case studies for those already conducting research and teaching in Latina/o communication studies. The media studied include radio, television, cinema, magazines, and newspapers.

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