Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Camera Obscura, The Velvet Light Trap, Discourse, and Screen, and in edited anthologies such as Race and Cyberspace, Virtual Publics, and Basketball Jones. She is co-editor, along with Henry Jenkins and Jane Shattuc, of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (forthcoming, Duke UP) and is currently completing Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Place and Femininity in the Deep South, also for Duke. Co-organizer of last year's new media conference, Interactive Frictions, Tara is currently among the organizers of Race in Digital Space, a USC-MIT conference to be held in April 2001. Her new media research focuses on issues of convergence, race, and representation.