The Inattention Economy by Lisa Nakamura - 9780816699063

Name: The Inattention Economy by Lisa Nakamura - 9780816699063
Brand: University of Minnesota Press

University of Minnesota Press

The Inattention EconomyHow Women of Color Built the Internet\nAuthor(s): Lisa Nakamura\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816699063, 978-0816699063\nSynopsis\nRevealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economy\n\nThe Inattention Economy challenges the widespread myth that the internet was born from the labor of a handful of white male entrepreneurs, recovering the uncredited and unpaid contributions of women of color. Focusing on three key inflection points in computing - the microchip era of the 1960s and '70s, the rise of social media in the 2000s, and [url] virtual reality in the 2020s - Lisa Nakamura illuminates these women's instrumental roles in building new technologies and making them coherent to users.\n\nFrom the Navajo women who manufactured the first semiconductor circuits in New Mexico to Tila Tequila, the queer Vie.