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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (189 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498528481 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women of color and social media multitasking : blogs, timelines, feeds, and community.DDC classification:
  • 305.48/8 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1161 .W656 2015
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Contents:
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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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CHOICE Review

These accessible, data-driven essays make the argument that women of color have affirmatively used social media as a way of leveraging themselves out of being "a double-minority in society." The first essay (by scholars associated with Wellesley College and its Wellesley Centers for Women) observes that "women now tend to dominate Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram," whereas Twitter and Tumblr reveal "no significant gender differences." From Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui's exploration of the role of Twitter in the Arab spring to essays about "glamalectual" literary communities and bodily self-image, the essays look at how social media redress patriarchal and racist hegemonies of force. Indeed, as Minu Basnet argues, the web provides "subaltern enclaves" to counter the derogations of street harassment. In his work Gary Lemons has contended that black men can add an extra disunion to intersectional feminism as allies; Tassie (communication, Morehouse College) and Givens (academic affairs, Medaille College) show that social media can further extend the identities of women of color without diffusing or assimilating them. The book is successful in arguing that cyberspace has amplified the maneuvering room available to women of color. The reality persists, though, that corporate interests own most major social media spaces. Even in virtual reality, privilege and oppression may remain. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers; professionals; general readers. --Nicholas Birns, The New School

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