View in EDS PDF Full Text ePub Full Text

Digital Black Feminism

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Title: Digital Black Feminism
Description: Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication AssociationWinner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersTraces 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.
Authors: Catherine Knight Steele
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: African American women, Feminism--United States, Internet and women--United States, African American women--Social life and customs, Technology and Black people--United States, Computer literacy--United States, Technology and women--United States, Technological literacy--United States
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women"s Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
FullText Links:
  – Type: ebook-pdf
  – Type: ebook-epub
Text:
  Availability: 0
Header DbId: nlebk
DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
An: 2904815
RelevancyScore: 1103
AccessLevel: 6
PubType: eBook
PubTypeId: ebook
PreciseRelevancyScore: 1103.19409179688
IllustrationInfo
ImageInfo – Size: thumb
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$2904815$PDF&s=r
– Size: medium
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$2904815$PDF&s=d
Items – Name: Title
  Label: Title
  Group: Ti
  Data: Digital Black Feminism
– Name: Abstract
  Label: Description
  Group: Ab
  Data: Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication AssociationWinner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersTraces 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.
– Name: Author
  Label: Authors
  Group: Au
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Catherine+Knight+Steele%22">Catherine Knight Steele</searchLink>
– Name: TypePub
  Label: Resource Type
  Group: TypPub
  Data: eBook.
– Name: Subject
  Label: Subjects
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22African+American+women%22">African American women</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Feminism--United+States%22">Feminism--United States</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Internet+and+women--United+States%22">Internet and women--United States</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22African+American+women--Social+life+and+customs%22">African American women--Social life and customs</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Technology+and+Black+people--United+States%22">Technology and Black people--United States</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Computer+literacy--United+States%22">Computer literacy--United States</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Technology+and+women--United+States%22">Technology and women--United States</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Technological+literacy--United+States%22">Technological literacy--United States</searchLink>
– Name: SubjectBISAC
  Label: Categories
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22SOCIAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Cultural+%26+Ethnic+Studies+%2F+American+%2F+African+American+%26+Black+Studies%22">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22SOCIAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Women"s+Studies%22">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women"s Studies</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22SOCIAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Media+Studies%22">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies</searchLink>
PLink https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=2904815
RecordInfo BibRecord:
  BibEntity:
    Classifications:
      – Code: 305.48896073
        Scheme: ddc
        Type: prePub
    Languages:
      – Code: eng
        Text: English
    Subjects:
      – SubjectFull: African American women
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Feminism--United States
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Internet and women--United States
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: African American women--Social life and customs
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Technology and Black people--United States
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Computer literacy--United States
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Technology and women--United States
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Technological literacy--United States
        Type: general
    Titles:
      – TitleFull: Digital Black Feminism
        Type: main
  BibRelationships:
    HasContributorRelationships:
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Catherine Knight Steele
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Catherine Knight Steele
    IsPartOfRelationships:
      – BibEntity:
          Dates:
            – D: 01
              M: 01
              Type: published
              Y: 2021
            – D: 28
              M: 10
              Type: profile
              Y: 2021
          Identifiers:
            – Type: isbn-print
              Value: 9781479808373
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9781479808397
          Titles:
            – TitleFull: Digital Black Feminism
              Type: main
ResultId 1