Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking
Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2015
188 pages
979-8-216-30565-1 (ISBN)
Description
Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community explores and critically analyzes the motivations and uses of social media by women of color. This edited collection seeks to determine how, and why, women of color make strategic use of social media as a social, professional, personal, and political tool for navigating the world. The contributors uniquely address the motivations and pathways for establishing virtual communities by, and for, women of color. Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking contributes to dialogues concerning gender, race, class, sexuality, politics, and uses of social media.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
979-8-216-30565-1 (9798216305651)
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Keisha Edwards Tassie | Sonja M. Brown Givens
Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking
Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community
Book
07/2017
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Persons
Keisha Edwards Tassie is associate professor of communication at Morehouse College.
Sonja Brown Givens is associate vice president for academic affairs at Medaille College.
Sonja Brown Givens is associate vice president for academic affairs at Medaille College.
Content
Chapter 1: Surviving and thriving: Women of Color Cultivating Virtual Social Capital,
Linda Charmaraman, Bernice Huiying Chan, Temple Price, and Amanda Richer
Chapter 2: Hashtagging from the Margins: Women of Color Engaged in Feminist Consciousness-Raising on Twitter, Caitlin Gunn
Chapter 3: The Arab Spring between the Streets and the Tweets: Examining the Embodied (e)Resistance through the Feminist Revolutionary Body, Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui
Chapter 4: Move, Get Out The Way: Black "Women-of-Words" Voyaging on the Information Superhighway, Alexa Harris
Chapter 5: Virtual Homeplace: (Re)Constructing the Body through Social Media, Latoya Lee
Chapter 6: Epistemic Advantage and Subaltern Enclaves: Tracing Anti-Street Harassment Discourse through Social Media Usage by Women of Color, Minu Basnet
Chapter 7: "Follow Me on Instagram": "Best Self" Identity Construction and Gaze through Hashtag Activism and Selfie Self-Love, Kandace Harris
Chapter 8: A Blog, A Bittersweet Mess, and Black and White Identity Development, Makini L. King
Linda Charmaraman, Bernice Huiying Chan, Temple Price, and Amanda Richer
Chapter 2: Hashtagging from the Margins: Women of Color Engaged in Feminist Consciousness-Raising on Twitter, Caitlin Gunn
Chapter 3: The Arab Spring between the Streets and the Tweets: Examining the Embodied (e)Resistance through the Feminist Revolutionary Body, Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui
Chapter 4: Move, Get Out The Way: Black "Women-of-Words" Voyaging on the Information Superhighway, Alexa Harris
Chapter 5: Virtual Homeplace: (Re)Constructing the Body through Social Media, Latoya Lee
Chapter 6: Epistemic Advantage and Subaltern Enclaves: Tracing Anti-Street Harassment Discourse through Social Media Usage by Women of Color, Minu Basnet
Chapter 7: "Follow Me on Instagram": "Best Self" Identity Construction and Gaze through Hashtag Activism and Selfie Self-Love, Kandace Harris
Chapter 8: A Blog, A Bittersweet Mess, and Black and White Identity Development, Makini L. King
