SCOOPS SEMINAR MaxPo jointly with OSC

Friday, April 13th 2018 at 12:30 pm - room Goguel (27 rue St Guillaume)

Invisible Boundaries in Cyberspace:
A Relational Approach to Understand Racial Hierarchy in the United States

Ken-Hou Lin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin

The internet promises a more connected world. Ken-Hou Lin is studying how social boundaries are produced and reproduced in cyberspace.

Main papers published:

• ‘’Mate  Selection  in  Cyberspace:  The  Intersection  of  Race,  Gender,  and  Education’’  (with  Jennifer  Lundquist), American Journal of Sociology, vol. 119, n° 1, p. 183-215, 2013.
• ‘’Is  Love  (Color)  Blind?  The  Economy  of  Race  among  White  Gay  &  Straight  Daters’’  (with  Jennifer  Lundquist), Social Forces, vol. 93, n° 4, p. 1423-1449, 2015.
• ‘’Positioning  Multiraciality  in  Cyberspace:  Treatment  of  Multiracial  Daters  in  an  Online  Dating  Website’’  (with Celeste Curington and Jennifer Lundquist), American Sociological Review, vol. 80, n° 4, p. 764-78, 2015.

Discussant Marie Bergström, INED.

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