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Lisa Nakamura

@lnakamura.bsky.social
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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.

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 15h
So exciting to see the CFP for this new volume on DH & AI out in the world! Edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org, part of the Debates in DH series @uminnpress.bsky.social. Deadline 11/1/26 dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...
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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 16/09/2026
there are three types of t&s worker 1: well-paid permanent employee who is not a subject matter expert and never studied the social sciences 2: underpaid contract worker SME who repeatedly explains the same things to 1 3: borderline slave in south asia trapped in the Child Torture Porn Cube
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A great channel if you want to learn indonesian! youtube.com/@aattb?si=3D...
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AATTB
In the spirit that learning the language of an important country of 280 million people and 3,500 Komodo dragons is probably not a bad thing, AJARAN ADLER TENTANG TATA BAHASA presents a series of eleve...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Truly worth reading. Borsook was, to me, like Ellen Ullman a rare and inspiring writer in the 90’s, a tech insider who was also a woman. Feminist or not, simply being that in the Valley was so unusual then. And taken for granted that it was rare, and would disappear.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
social media has enormously enriched my personal and intellectual life but i think it's a plague and a blight and if you use it too much you almost inevitably go insane
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Digital Queers and High Tech Gays
Digital Queers and High Tech Gays tells the history of LGBTQ+ cyber activism in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and how it ultimately shape...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There go the arts humanities and social science. What’s left is high class trade school.
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One of the sickest burns in all of English literature. An excerpt from one of the most revered novels, EM Forster’s Howard’s End.
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I always liked Southwest Airlines and this is a reminder of why: workers refused to let ICE agents board a plane and blocked their view of a screen www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Airline workers reportedly decline to help US agents as Trump migrant crackdown accelerates
Expansion of immigration enforcement at US airports puts employees at odds with agents seeking 2,000 daily arrests
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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!
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“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
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Why does Amazon think I want to go as Run DMC to Memorial Day
Memorial Day Sale
Up to 50% off Amazon Outlet

Along with images of blue Nike knockoffs, a red brimmed has, and square blue sunglasses that all together look like a run DMC outfit
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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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!
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A wonderful essay on mental illness from Luca Turin, a wonderful writer on perfume open.substack.com/pub/lucaturi...
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My friend M
and what happened to her
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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.
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
“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.”
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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...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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.
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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’
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"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/...
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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
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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!
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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...
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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...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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...
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Science, Technology, and Society · March 18 · 44m
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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...
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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...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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.
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Totally agree!
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Chasing goose meme and the goose is saying “which side in WWII?”
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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
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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
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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/
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its about time we joined in the discourse #hmart #asianamericans #southasian #black #brown
TikTok video by jason
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The youth know. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
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‘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
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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.
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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.
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Mags Display Name @mags.colvett.online · 03/12/2025
(bursts in late, slamming the door open hard enough to dent the wall) JEFF BUCKLEY COVERED THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE??????????
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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...
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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
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Love Lina Khan. What a great podcast guest, and she understands how tech monopolies work www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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?
La brea tar pits
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Becinator @artdragon86.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Artificial Intelligence Use Declaration
During the preparation of this manuscript, the author used DeepSeek-R1 (an AI language model developed by DeepSeek) strictly as an editorial tool under the following conditions:

Research Assistance & Citation Identification: To locate and verify scholarly sources on feminist game studies, queer theory, and avatar customisation. Example: Identifying foundational texts by Bonnie Ruberg, Adrienne Shaw, and Lisa Nakamura.Reference Formatting: Assisting with Chicago-style citation consistency. The author maintained full oversight of all content, and the AI tool was used solely to enhance scholarly rigour and clarity. No AI-generated text, ideas, or analysis appears in the final manuscript.
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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
In case anyone needed reminding, racist trolls existed long before the Internet and at least two of them (Watson and. Wm Shockley, co inventor of the transistor) won Nobel Prizes, which encouraged them even more. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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James Watson obituary
Nobel prize-winning biologist whose discovery, with Francis Crick, of the structure of DNA solved the mystery of genetic inheritance
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
When I see this BS I’m even more grateful to have been raised Japanese American. My 107 year grandmother wore elastic waist gardening trousers and dresses to church. That’s my fashion destiny (except church). www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
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Anti-ageing trousers? There really is no fashion or beauty claim too wild
According to a neuroscientist, our brains are hardwired to keep falling for the latest beauty fads. It’s a booby trap too many of us fall down – and I should know
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
What do you wanna do now, Captain? Same thing we always do. Fight ‘em until we can’t.
Screenshot from Battlestar Galactica: Chief Tyrol and Starbuck grimly watch (off-screen) Cylons march through New Caprica.
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nam June Paik’s robot K-546 was first shown at Judson Hall in 1964. It could refuse to labor, one of many ways it was interesting: “K-456 had foam breasts that could rotate and a penis made of sandpaper and flint, which Paik had removed before the two traveled to New York.”
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
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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...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
There is nothing more annoying than taking someone to a restaurant and having them demanding to know whether this or that is "authentic", buddy do you like the taste or not I'm not a food history documentarian here and neither are you, we came for lunch
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Always love chris gilliards take on what he calls “luxury surveilance,” cant wait for this book to drop. an extra good convo with Paris Marx about why not to strap a computer to your face. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Smart Glasses Are Ushering In An Anti-Social World w/ Chris Gilliard
Podcast Episode · Tech Won't Save Us · 10/16/2025 · 55m
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 29/08/2025
it's less "AI drives people to kill themselves" and more that "tech companies do it, and are indifferent about it". and, bleakly, some journalists seem determined to convince you that the focal point of this story is a high point of engineering rather than a low point of humanity
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The news is a shitshow and we live in a fascist state. When I want to feel better I read this list of scientists, writers, activists who got up every day and got on that grind, often for 20+ years, because they wanted to. www.nytimes.com/article/nobe...
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What to Know About the 2024 Nobel Prize Winners
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