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Black Twitter: A Response to Bias in Mainstream Media

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  • Latoya A. Lee

    (Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Oswego, 313 Mahar Hall, 7060 Route 104, Oswego, NY 13126, USA)

Abstract

This paper seeks to shed light on the ways people of color, in the United States, are using social media to challenge racial bias. As part of this investigation, this paper draws on Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, and Digital New Media studies to examine the extent to which social media, while seen as a place for ‘play’ can also operate as a digital homespace, a space used as a tool for black women and men to (re)construct their bodies and identities, challenging the “controlling images” widespread in mainstream media and society at large. This paper employs the methods of content analysis and participant observation and find that these social media forums are not transformative by themselves but instead have little moments that make for resistance and a digital homespace.

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  • Latoya A. Lee, 2017. "Black Twitter: A Response to Bias in Mainstream Media," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 6(1), pages 1-17, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:6:y:2017:i:1:p:26-:d:92218
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    1. Neslihan Bisgin & Halil Bisgin & Daniel Hummel & Jon Zelner & Belinda L. Needham, 2023. "Did the public attribute the Flint Water Crisis to racism as it was happening? Text analysis of Twitter data to examine causal attributions to racism during a public health crisis," Journal of Computational Social Science, Springer, vol. 6(1), pages 165-190, April.
    2. Kealeboga Aiseng, 2024. "Black Twitter and Digital Counterpublics in South Africa," Studies in Media and Communication, Redfame publishing, vol. 12(2), pages 302-320, June.

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