The Inattention Economy How Women of Color Built the Internet

"A groundbreaking rereading of the entire history of the internet, The Inattention Economy is a monumental work that shifts how we understand its genesis. Calling for redress and reparations for the women of color whose work was exploited in the internet's creation, Lisa Nakamura presents a bold and compelling interrogation of digital racial capitalism."-Grace Kyungwon Hong, author of Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference

"The Inattention Economy is a crucial analysis of the way digital technologies have been systematically built out of the embodied labor of women of color. Lisa Nakamura brings new life to 'women of color' as a politically potent category in discussions of new technologies, using it as a prism to diffract the strategic resistance women employ despite ongoing exploitation and erasure."-Kalindi Vora, author of Reimagining Reproduction: Essays on Surrogacy, Labor, and Technologies of Human Reproduction

"[Nakamura] convincingly argues that the internet (in particular, social media) would not exist without the underpaid or unpaid invisible labor of women of color." -Kirkus Reviews