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The digital practices of African Americans : an approach to studying cultural change in the information society / Roderick Graham.
Van Pelt Library HN90.I56 G73 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Roderick, 1975-
- Series:
- Digital formations ; vol. 90.
- Digital formations, 1526-3169 ; vol. 90
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects--United States.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Internet users.
- United States.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- African Americans.
- Internet users--United States.
- Information society--United States.
- Information society.
- Physical Description:
- 164 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2014]
- Summary:
- How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation? How has the Internet impacted the accumulation of social and cultural capital? By synthesizing insights across a variety of disciplines, this book builds an original theoretical perspective through which these and other questions about core social processes can be addressed. Three case studies of how African Americans use information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used to illustrate this theoretical perspective. They show how groups can leverage ICTs to overcome historical inequalities. The book argues that the lenses through which scholars and society's leaders think about new technology place too much emphasis on the technological and economic aspects of ICTs, and not enough on the impact of ICTs on social processes at the everyday level. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Information Society 7
- Chapter 2 The Digital Divide 21
- Chapter 3 The Digital Practice Perspective 35
- Chapter 4 The Digital Practice of Weak Tie Development 57
- Chapter 5 The Digital Practice of Maintaining Family Ties via Mobile Phone 73
- Chapter 6 The Digital Practice of Maintaining Digital Enclaves 89
- Chapter 7 The Digital Practice Perspective and Social Policy: Improving the Social, Cultural, and Civic Quality of the Digital Environment 111
- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Smart Mobs, Flash Mobs, Flash Robs and the Revolutionary Potential of the Digital Environment 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1433122715
- 9781433122729
- 1433122723
- 9781433122712
- OCLC:
- 871965567
- Publisher Number:
- 99959142912
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