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Contents:
Cultural Values in the Machine. Digital intersectionality theory and the #Blacklivesmatter movement / Brendesha M. Tynes, Joshua Schuschke, and Safiya Umoja Noble -- The trouble with White feminism : Whiteness, digital feminism, and the intersectional internet / Jessie Daniels -- Asian/American masculinity : the politics of virility, virality, and visibility / Myra Washington -- Signifyin', bitching, and blogging : Black women and resistance discourse online / Catherine Knight Steele-- Video stars : marketing queer performance in networked television / Aymar Jean Christian -- Black women exercisers, Asian women artists, White women daters, and Latina lesbians: cultural constructions of race and gender within intersectionality-based Facebook groups / Jenny Ungbha Korn -- Grand Theft Auto V : post-racial fantasies and Ferguson realities / David J. Leonard -- Cultural Values as the Machine. Commercial content moderation : digital laborer's dirty work / Sarah T. Roberts -- Love, Inc. : toward structural intersectional analysis of online dating sites and applications / Molly Niesen -- The nation-state in intersectional internet : Turkey's encounters with Facebook and Twitter / Ergin Bulut -- The invisible information worker : Latinas in telecommunications / Melissa Villa-Nicholas -- The intersectional interface / Miriam M. Sweeney -- The epidemiology of digital infrastructure / Robert Mejia -- Education, representation, and resistance : black girls in popular Instagram memes / Tiera ChanteĢ Tanksley
Summary:
"From race, sex, class, and culture, the multidisciplinary field of Internet studies needs theoretical and methodological approaches that allow us to question the organization of social relations that are embedded in digital technologies, and that foster a clearer understanding of how power relations are organized through technologies. Representing a scholarly dialogue among established and emerging critical media and information studies scholars, this volume provides a means of foregrounding new questions, methods, and theories which can be applied to digital media, platforms, and infrastructures. These inquiries include, among others, how representation to hardware, software, computer code, and infrastructures might be implicated in global economic, political, and social systems of control. Contributors argue that more research needs to explicitly trace the types of uneven power relations that exist in technological spaces. By looking at both the broader political and economic context and the many digital technology acculturation processes as they are differentiated intersectionally, a clearer picture emerges of how under-acknowledging culturally situated and gendered information technologies are impacting the possibility of participation with (or purposeful abstinence from) the Internet. This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Internet studies, library and information studies, communication, sociology, and psychology. It is also ideal for researchers with varying expertise and will help to advance theoretical and methodological approaches to Internet research"--Back cover.
