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Digital Communities of Black Girlhood: New Media Technologies and Online Discourses of Empowerment
- Author
- Maryann Erigha & Ashley Crooks-Allen
- Year
- 2020
- Publisher
- The Black Scholar, T&F
- Abstract
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This essaymakes an interpretive contri
butiontotheinterdisciplinaryfieldsofBlack
digitalstudies,Blackgirlstudies,digitalacti
vism,mediastudies, andsociology through
anexaminationandsurveyof select social
mediacommunitiesandhashtagsgenerated
byBlackwomenandgirls. Specifically,we
explorehowonlinediscourses shapeBlack
girlhoodandfindthatwiththeageof social
mediacomesapublicreclamationofBlack
girlhoodviaemergent communities.Online
influencers affirm#BlackGirlMagic, expand
the possibilities of Black girlhood to
embrace the #AwkwardBlackGirl and the
#WellReadBlackGirl, #SayHerName to
summonourdepartedBlackgirlsback into
existence (e.g. Aiyana Stanley-Jones), ask
#YouOKSis toextendconcernandcommu
nity,andexciseBlackgirlhoodfromthenega
tivityanddeficitmodelsofoppressivewhite
media narratives to remind theworld that
#BlackGirlsRock. - Keywords
- Media Literacy
- Tags
- Audience studies
- PGDMIL Course
- C03 – Audiences and Representation
- PGDMIL Block
- C03-B2: Digital Civic Engagement
- Has Part
- C03-U06: Media Literacy and Social Movements
- Corpus Status
- Pending Review