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

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

Graham, Roderick
Jones, Steve

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Series: Digital Formations, Book 90

General ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1433122715
ISBN13: 9781433122712
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Jun 24 2014
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
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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