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The informationalization of race: Communication technologies and genomics in the information age.

机译：种族信息化：信息时代的通信技术和基因组学。

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As a mode of representation, a structuring device, and as a biological category, race is undergoing a significant transformation in the digital age. This dissertation shows how a new form of racialization is being produced through developments and innovations in communication technologies. Increasingly, racial knowledge is being constructed from seemingly neutral and unrelated pieces of information, which are collected, sorted, analyzed, and accessed through two key technologies: databases and the Internet. I call this interaction between technology and identity the informationalization of race. Race as information develops from race as the body and race as culture. To understand how this new formation is emerging through the social shaping of new media technologies in a specific institutional setting, I conduct organizational, political economic, and discourse analyses of the next Human Genome Project, the HapMap Project. Advances in human genomics has recently re-invigorated scientific research into the relationship between race and biology. Where the HGP concluded that humanity is similar at the genetic level, the HapMap Project began by looking for differences between racialized groups. The findings from the HapMap project have been promised to help in developing pharmaceuticals that can target common diseases, such as cancer. However, this development also opens the door to old biological conceptions of race and a new phase of the biopolitics where biology, technology, and information converge on the human body.
机译：作为一种表示方式，一种结构化装置以及一种生物学类别，种族正在数字时代中经历着巨大的变革。这篇论文展示了如何通过通信技术的发展和创新产生一种新的种族化形式。越来越多的种族知识是从看似中立且无关的信息中构建的，这些信息是通过两种关键技术收集，分类，分析和访问的：数据库和Internet。我将技术与身份之间的这种相互作用称为种族的信息化。作为信息的种族从作为身体的种族和作为文化的种族发展而来。为了了解在特定机构环境中通过新媒体技术的社会塑造如何形成这种新形式，我对下一个人类基因组计划HapMap项目进行了组织，政治经济学和话语分析。人类基因组学的进步最近重新激发了关于种族与生物学之间关系的科学研究。 HGP认为人类在基因水平上是相似的，因此HapMap项目从寻找种族群体之间的差异开始。已经承诺，HapMap项目的发现将有助于开发针对癌症等常见疾病的药物。但是，这一发展也为古老的种族生物概念和生物政治的新阶段打开了大门，在生物政治中生物学，技术和信息汇聚到了人体。

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    Chow-White, Peter A.;

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    University of Southern California.$bCommunication: Doctor of Philosophy.;

  • 授予单位 University of Southern California.$bCommunication: Doctor of Philosophy.;
  • 学科 American Studies.; History of Science.; Mass Communications.; Information Science.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2007
  • 页码 243 p.
  • 总页数 243
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学史;传播理论;信息与知识传播;
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