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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460840003321

Titolo

Women of color and social media multitasking : blogs, timelines, feeds, and community / / edited by Keisha Edwards Tassie and Sonja M. Brown Givens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-2848-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/8

Soggetti

Minority women

Feminism

Women's rights

Social media

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Robin means coleman -- Introduction / Keisha Edwards Tassie -- Surviving and thriving : women of color cultivating virtual social capital / Linda Charmaraman, Bernice Huiying Chan, Temple Price, and AmaNda Richer -- Hashtagging from the margins : women of color engaged in feminist consciousness-raising on Twitter / Caitlin Gunn -- The Arab spring between the streets and the tweets : examining the embodied (e)resistance through the feminist revolutionary body / Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui -- Move, get out the way : Black "women-of-words" voyaging on the information superhighway / Alexa Harris -- Virtual homeplace : (re)constructing the body through social media / Latoya Lee -- Epistemic advantage and subaltern enclaves : tracing anti-street harassment discourse through social media usage by women of color / Minu Basnet -- "Follow me on instagram" : "best self" identity construction and gaze through hashtag activism and selfie self-love / Kandace Harris -- A blog, a bittersweet mess, and black and white identity development / Makini L. King -- Epilogue / Sonja M. Brown Givens -- About the contributors.



Sommario/riassunto

Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community examines how women of color make use of social media as a social, professional, personal, and political tool for navigating the world.