ISBN:
9781479808397
,
9781479808366
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (195 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Critical cultural communication
DDC:
305.48/896073
Keywords:
African American women
;
Feminism
;
Internet and women
;
Technology and blacks
;
Technology and women
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
;
#BlackGirlMagic
;
#BlackLivesMatter
;
Agency
;
Appropriation
;
Beauty shop
;
Black Feminism
;
Black feminism
;
Blogging
;
Blogs
;
Blogs/Bloggers
;
Braids
;
Branding
;
Capitalism
;
Coding
;
Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis
;
Digital Culture
;
Digital ethics
;
Enclaves
;
Feminism
;
Gender (non) binary
;
Hashtags
;
Hip-Hop Feminism
;
Hip-Hop
;
Identity
;
Instagram
;
Intersectionality
;
Labor
;
Matrix of Domination
;
Misogynoir
;
Online harassment
;
Pedagogy
;
Platforms
;
Positionality
;
Praxis
;
Public scholarship
;
Publishing
;
Race Women
;
Respectability
;
Self-care
;
Selfies
;
Signifyin(g)
;
Technology
;
Technophilia
;
Threads
;
Tools
;
Trans/Cis women
;
Tweet/Twitter
;
Typing
;
Viral content
;
affordances
;
prototypes
;
technoculture
Abstract:
Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thoughtBlack women are at the forefront of some of this century’s most important discussions about technology: trolling, online harassment, algorithmic bias, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Black women’s relationship to technology began long before the advent of Twitter or Instagram. To truly “listen to Black women,” Steele points to the history of Black feminist technoculture in the United States and its ability to decenter white supremacy and patriarchy in a conversation about the future of technology. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial acumen of Black women’s labor—born of survival strategies and economic necessity—both on and offline.Positioning Black women at the center of our discourse about the past, present, and future of technology, Steele offers a through-line from the writing of early twentieth-century Black women to the bloggers and social media mavens of the twenty-first century. She makes connections among the letters, news articles, and essays of Black feminist writers of the past and a digital archive of blog posts, tweets, and Instagram stories of some of the most well-known Black feminist writers of our time. Linking narratives and existing literature about Black women’s technology use in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, Digital Black Feminism traverses the bounds between historical and archival analysis and empirical internet studies, forcing a reconciliation between fields and methods that are not always in conversation. As the work of Black feminist writers now reaches its widest audience online, Steele offers both hopefulness and caution on the implications of Black feminism becoming a digital product.
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479808373.001.0001
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479808397
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https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9781479808397/html
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