Black Cyberfeminism: Intersectionality, Institutions and Digital Sociology
Digital Sociologies eds. Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory and Tressie McMillan Cottom. Bristol: Policy Press, 2016
39 Pages Posted: 16 Mar 2016
Date Written: March 14, 2016
Abstract
This paper considers what intersectionality brings to digital sociology. Drawing on my research of online and for-profit education, I argue that black cyberfeminist theory can refine digital sociology’s understanding of identities, institutions and political economies in the data age. Additionally, classification situations offers a refinement of black cyberfeminism themes to examine how one mechanism, algorithmic stratification, allocates access to and returns from digitally mediated interactions.
Keywords: black cyberfeminism, digital sociology, classification situations
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