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Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking

Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community
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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.
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
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