Lisa Nakamura
@lnakamura.bsky.social
Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
What a great, fun conversation this was! It’s not often the case that you get to do a podcast with IRL friends who are also experts in your field. There’s some pretty mind blowing insights esp from @cassiusa.bsky.social highly recommend!
University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · last mo.🆕🎧▶️ Fantastic new conversation on the pod featuring Lisa Nakamura, André Brock, Jr., Wendy Sung, and Cassius Adair talking material labor and the digital economy: share.transistor.fm/s/2200797c @lnakamura.bsky.social @cassiusa.bsky.social
“Contagion” is my comfort movie. It’s got women researchers in it as a matter of course, normal people show incredible bravery, and Marion cotillard is so transcendently beautiful in it
Essential reading from @shobitap.org in @science.org: the concept of "sacrifice zones" described communities near industrial or military sites. "Sacrifice subjects" names who bears the risks of new technologies. People-first regulation, she argues, starts with that question.
Shobita Parthasarathy@shobitap.org · 3mo agoMy new Expert Voices column @science.org discusses how the pursuit of innovation without appropriate governance creates "sacrifice subjects": marginalized communities who experience systematic harm from tech. And I look to France for a regulatory approach that takes disparate impacts seriously.
Why does Amazon think I want to go as Run DMC to Memorial Day
Together, the A.I.eeeee!!! Collective spent the week writing and developing a new collaborative book project, Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire (working title). We’re excited to share more about the book’s release soon!
A wonderful essay on mental illness from Luca Turin, a wonderful writer on perfume open.substack.com/pub/lucaturi...
My friend M
and what happened to her
open.substack.com
Was Ching chonged in the French Quarter during trip to NOLA to speak at Tulane. Very surprised, then realized that there were almost no Asians around. This seems new. Anyway worse things have happened than hearing “me Chinese me play joke” from a young white man on a bike.
This is very good. It could also sub “academic” for “writer.” I’m against urging our absolute best students to “go to grad school” but sadly it is usually what happens. I never say that now.
Tom Gauld@tomgauld.bsky.social · 4mo agomy latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
“Drawing upon James and Grace Lee Boggs’s expanded notion of the cybercultural era, Brian Bartell demonstrates how a range of artists, writers, and activists from the 1960s prefigured the wider discourse around automation and made it a central concern of their politics.”
On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution
Uncovering the Black Power movement’s contributions to theorizing the politics of automation On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution offers a comp...
upress.umn.edu
Bringing the rejection of intimacy and sociality to a new level, how does this company keep stepping in it? "The so-called AI characters were developed as Zuckerberg noted the success of AI companion start-up Character AI" Any tech that harms youth seems irresistible to this company.
Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff
CEO is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’
giftarticle.ft.com
"China’s Jaecoo 7 SUV, with a starting price of £29,000, became the UK’s best-selling car in March." This article is not a shopping list but a warning about Chinese manufacturing overproduction in re: high end goods, bad for local business, brutal for competitiors giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world
Impelled by furious competition, hefty subsidies and sheer scale, the country’s companies are cutting a swath through the world’s most advanced industries
giftarticle.ft.com
Me and Ashlee Bird, prof of indigenous and digital media studies at Notre Dame, talk about methods for doing research with and about indigenous people and culture. Her work on Red Dead Redemption is incredible, check it out! This is an interview, not a normal article, fun conversation!
Hopkins Press@hopkinspress.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW ISSUE OUT NOW American Quarterly 78.1, March 2026 tinyurl.com/pu482rf4 CONTRIBUTORS René Esparza, Francesca Sawaya, Grace Dutt, Molly McGarry, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Fernando Blanco, Marcia Ochoa, Susana Peña, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Cole Rizki, María Amelia Viteri, and more
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
upress.umn.edu
I love the New Books Network podcasts, and many thanks to Miranda Melcher for interviewing me about my new one: _The Inattention Economy: How women of color build the internet_ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Lisa Nakamura,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Science, Technology, and Society · March 18 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
I absolutely love this podcast and its what happening in digitak theory always love to learn what Alex Galloway is doing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Disintegrator
Technology Podcast · Updated Weekly · What does it mean to be human in an age where experience and behavior are mediated and regulated by algorithms? The Disintegrator Podcast is a limited series expl...
podcasts.apple.com
I did this interview with the wonderful Eleanor Drage about my book The Inattention Economy: How women of color built the internet, out from U Minn press next month.
The Good Robot Podcast@goodrobotpod.bsky.social · 5mo agoDid you know Tila Tequila was one of the internet's first influencers? 🤔 How do you think early pioneers like her shaped today's social media landscape? Don't miss this podcast episode with Lisa Nakamura discussing these insights and more! YouTube: youtu.be/2LfDIyFPZOI?...
Glad to see the Guardian list higher ed jobs as proletarian “prosaic” jobs, ie : “teacher, paralegal, professor, trucker, machinist”– lhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/07/boomer-millennial-gen-z-housing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
It’s still not OK boomer: younger Americans are flailing – and mad as hell | J Oliver Conroy
For young Americans, not being able to buy a house is more than a sob story. It’s the symbol of a broken social contract and a generational betrayal
theguardian.com
What a fantastic teacher this guy is. Evidence that critical ethnic studies can be effectively taught on social media platforms. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ye2RhX/
its about time we joined in the discourse #hmart #asianamericans #southasian #black #brown
TikTok video by jason
tiktok.com
The youth know. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe
Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back
theguardian.com
Almost finished Annie Bot. It’s good but the didn’t need to finish it to know that humans will create abusive relationships with AI and are already doing it.
Thrilled to see my book described as “exploring influencer culture,” given that it focuses almost solely on Tila Tequila. A dream of mine since 2008.
(bursts in late, slamming the door open hard enough to dent the wall) JEFF BUCKLEY COVERED THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE??????????
Here's a (scholarly) rant about A.I. and the seeming paradox Asian Americans as complicit with it that me, Michelle Huang, and Tara Fickle wrote as part of a DISCOnetwork writing jam. Is A.I. the next Iron Chink? medium.com/@hatlabnorth...
What Everyone Can Learn About A.I. From the Asian American Experience
Four takeaways from four Asian American academics who study race, tech, and society
medium.com
Love Lina Khan. What a great podcast guest, and she understands how tech monopolies work www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mamdani’s appointment of Lina Khan a warning to private equity, experts say
Ex-FTC chair was among first to go after practice of folding local firms into larger ones leading to higher prices
theguardian.com
Joyce carol Oates has been writing about culture for many more years than Elon musk has spent doing anything. Effortless own that she prob spent ten seconds thinking about before moving on with her day.
Jay@itsjaymkay.bsky.social · 9mo agoFor reference. I might print this out and hang it in my house:
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
