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

"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."--Publisher information Contents Foreword Introduction 1 Women of Color Cultivating Virtual Social Capital 2 Hashtagging from the Margins 3 The Arab Spring between the Streets and the Tweets 4 Move, Get Out the Way 5 Virtual Homeplace 6 Epistemic Advantage and Subaltern Enclaves 7 “Follow Me on Instagram” 8 A Blog, a Bittersweet Mess, and Black and White Identity Development Conclusion Index About the Editors and Contributors