Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community

Tassie, Keisha Edwards (Editor)/ Givens, Sonja M. Brown (Editor)/ Alaoui, Fatima Zahrae Chrifi (Contributor)/ Basnet, Minu (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 149852849X / ISBN 13: 9781498528498

Published by Lexington Books, 2017

About this Item

194 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 149852849X
• ISBN 13: 9781498528498
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.3 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Keisha Edwards Tassie is associate professor of communication at Morehouse College.

Sonja Brown Givens is associate vice president for academic affairs at Medaille College.