Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822360306 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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She acknowledges and debunks the writing on overly utopian and breathless views of digital media as 'participatory culture' while giving full credit and agency to the bloggers she writes about. Minh-Ha T. Pham's discussion of the garment industry's racialization and the details she provides about bloggers' lives and the conditions of their labor is impressive. Stunning!". "Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet is a fiercely imaginative and inspiring book
A multifaceted and detailed analysis, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet addresses questions concerning the status and meaning of “Asian taste” in the early twenty-first century, the kinds of cultural and economic work Asian tastes do, and the fashion public and industry’s appetite for certain kinds of racialized eliteness. Pham understands their online activities as “taste work” practices that generate myriad forms of capital for superbloggers and the brands they feature. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet. Situating blogging within the historical context of gendered and racialized fashion work while being attentive to the broader cultural, technological, and economic shifts in global consumer capitalism, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet has profound implications for understanding the changing and enduring dynamics of race, gender, and class in shaping some of the most popular work practices and spaces of the digital fashion media economy. . In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal sty
Great book. Kindle edition Lisa Joy Joy Great book. Kindle edition. Got it for a fashion history class. Using it to explore the roles fashion played in history from gender, power, and status.