{"product_id":"the-inattention-economy-how-women-of-color-built-the-internet-9780816699063","title":"The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Inattention Economy\u003c\/i\u003e 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 A.I.-fueled virtual reality in the 2020s--Lisa Nakamura illuminates these women's instrumental roles in building new technologies and making them coherent to users.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Navajo women who manufactured the first semiconductor circuits in New Mexico to Tila Tequila, the queer Vietnamese American refugee who became the first true internet influencer in the MySpace age, to Black virtual reality creators, Nakamura highlights how women's gendered and racialized identities have uniquely positioned them to mediate the development and proliferation of new technologies. She exposes how these women have been structurally excluded from racial capitalism's benefits while their labor is considered as exploitable and inexhaustible as that of machines. Confronting this injustice, she focuses our attention on their work, which undergirds and makes possible the platforms ingrained in our daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing for both recognition and material compensation for these women's labor, \u003ci\u003eThe Inattention Economy\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful counterhistory of Silicon Valley and a persuasive call to imagine a different kind of internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Nakamura\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816699063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures and the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eCybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDigitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lisa Nakamura \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47897220382877,"sku":"9780816699063","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_23e9ba69-1d78-4419-a978-b37c8afc9cbf.jpg?v=1778004023","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-inattention-economy-how-women-of-color-built-the-internet-9780816699063","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}