Lisa Nakamura

“Understanding” Asians: Anti-Asian Racism, Sentimentality, Sentiment Analysis, and Digital Surveillance, Wendy Chun, Grace Hong, and Lisa Nakamura, Critical Inquiry, vol 50, no 3, 2024. 

Infrastructural Fugitivity: contraband cellphones, TikTok, and vital media behind bars, Jasmine Ehrhardt and Lisa Nakamura, journal of visual culture, vol 21, no 3, 390-409, December 2022. 

Feeling Good About Feeling Bad: Virtuous Virtual Reality and the Automation of Racial Empathy,  journal of visual culture, vol. 19, no 1, 47-64, March 2020.

“Drawing from social justice to support targets of online harassment,” Sarita Yardi, Oliver Haimson, and Lisa Nakamura, New Media and Society, March 25, 2020.

“Digital Precarity Manifesto,”    with Precarity Lab (Irina Aristarkhova, Ivan Chaar-Lopez, Anna Watkins Fisher, Tung-Hui Hu, Meryem Kamil, and Silvia Lindtner) Social Text 141: Volume 37, No 4, December 2019.

“Gender and Race in the Gaming World,” Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives, 2nd edition, Mark Graham and William H. Dutton, Oxford University Press, 2019.

“Watching White Supremacy on Digital Video Platforms: ‘Screw Your Optics, I’m Going In,'” Film Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3, February 2019.

“The Digital Afterlives of This Bridge Called My Back: Woman of Color Feminism, Digital Labor, and Networked Pedagogy,” with Cass Adair, American Literature, Vol. 89, No. 2, June 2017.

“The Unwanted Labour of Social Media: Women of Color Call Out Culture as Venture Community Management,” New Formations: a journal of culture, theory, politics, 106-112, 2015.

“Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronics Manufacture,” American Quarterly, 66:4, December 2014, 919-941.

“I Will do Everything that Am Asked’: Scambaiting, Digital Show-Space, and the Racial Violence of Social Media,”  journal of visual culture, 13(3), 2014, 257-274.

Glitch Racism: Actors as Networks Within Vernacular Internet Theory, Culture Digitally, December 10, 2013.

“Words With Friends: Socially Networked Reading on Goodreads,” PMLA, January 2013.

“Economies of Digital Production in East Asia: iPhone Girls and the Transnational Circuits of Cool,” Media Fields Journal, No. 2, 2011.

“Syrian Lesbian Bloggers, Fake Geishas, and the Attractions of Identity Tourism,” Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged, July 2011

“The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher’s The Social Network,” In Media Res, 2011.

“Cyber-race,” PMLA: Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, Special issue on Comparative Racialization, 2008

“’Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, Special Issue on Massively Multiplayer Online Games, edited by Robert Brookey, 2009.

“All Look Same: Mediating Visual Cultures of Race on the Web” ” in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, edited by Shilpa Dave, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren, 262-272.  New York: NYU Press, 2005.

“Prospects for a Materialist Informatics: An Interview with Donna Haraway,” in electronic book review, 2003.

My first article: “Race in/for Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet.” in Works and Days, Volume 13, 181-193, 1995.