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Lisa Nakamura researches and writes about racism, sexism and the internet. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, she is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker collegiate professor of American culture and the director of the Digital Studies Institute. Nakamura is the author of four books and is working on a fifth about women of color and the internet. Her areas of interest include racism and sexism in video games, histories of indigenous electronic manufacture in post-war America, content moderation by women of color on social media and virtual reality’s claims to produce racial and gender empathy.