The Digital Practices of African Americans: An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society - Couverture souple

Graham, Roderick

 
9781433122712: The Digital Practices of African Americans: An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Roderick Graham (PhD, City University of New York Graduate Center) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He has published articles in Sociology Compass, New Media & Society, and Information, Communication and Society.

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9781433122729: The Digital Practices of African Americans: An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1433122723 ISBN 13 :  9781433122729
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2014
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